8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Mother, Couch’s surrealist family drama is full of big swings By: Sarah Gorr First-time director Niclas Larsson takes huge surrealistic risks, and it’s refreshing to see someone so unafraid to miss.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Tween reality, not sci-fi spectacle, fits Me best By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+'s sci-fi middle school series excels when making a metaphor of early adolescence but stumbles over a larger mythology.
8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Mother, Couch’s surrealist family drama is full of big swings By: Sarah Gorr First-time director Niclas Larsson takes huge surrealistic risks, and it’s refreshing to see someone so unafraid to miss.
8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE June Zero is a depressingly relevant film about the past By: Chris Ludovici Jake Paltrow takes a novel look at the crimes and contradictions of the Holocaust.
9.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Thelma sets a senior citizen on an Impossible Mission By: B.L. Panther Josh Margolin's charming action-comedy lets June Squibb have the kind of "still got it" energy as Tom Cruise.
Reviews Intimate Indigenous yarn Fancy Dance hits most of the right steps By: Lisa Laman Erica Tremblay crafts an honest, lived-in tale of Indigenous struggle and community.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Tween reality, not sci-fi spectacle, fits Me best By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+'s sci-fi middle school series excels when making a metaphor of early adolescence but stumbles over a larger mythology.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Rashida Jones is anything but Sunny and that’s great By: Tim Stevens The star plays unpleasant with aplomb elevating Sunny, AppleTV+'s near-future robot caper, above its increasingly complicated plot mechanics.
9.2 BEST NEW SHOW The Boys Season 4 isn’t bulletproof but it gets damn close By: Tim Stevens Prime Video’s satirical superhero series continues to deliver sick gags and trenchant societal analysis.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Presumed Innocent guilty of being a strong legal thriller By: Tim Stevens The second adaptation of Scott Turow’s novel strips away some of the story’s complications for a deeper character study of Jake Gyllenhaal’s protagonist.