9.5 BEST NEW MOVIE The impeccable Love Lies Bleeding flexes its way through bloody lesbian noir By: Justin Harrison Rose Glass' neon-soaked crime thriller is a perfectly arch, deviously dark romance.
8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE In Dune: Part Two, the spice must flow, and so must the blood of nonbelievers By: Clint Worthington Denis Villeneuve finishes his epic two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel with sprawling scope and thorny politics.
8.9 BEST NEW MOVIE Michael Mann fills Ferrari with all his sound and fury By: Justin Harrison Adam Driver does insightful, searching work as auto legend Enzo Ferrari in the filmmaker's study of a pivotal year in his life.
8.0 BEST NEW MOVIE The Color Purple paints a picture of community By: B.L. Panther Blitz Bazawule's adaptation of the Alice Walker classic (and the Broadway musical) is a more joyful, celebratory film than its predecessor.
9.8 BEST NEW MOVIE The Zone of Interest presents the Holocaust with minimum spectacle and maximum terror By: Matt Cipolla The writer/director’s first feature in 10 years is a near-unclassifiable work, emotionally flattening yet fundamentally opposed to mining tension through its craft.
8.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Poor Things is a weird & wonderful Frankenstein story By: Gena Radcliffe Yorgos Lanthimos directs a sumptuous adult fairy tale featuring Emma Stone at her very best.
8.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Killers of the Flower Moon confirms Martin Scorsese’s undiminished talent By: Peter Sobczynski The chronicling of the Osage Nation’s early 20th-century tragedy proves powerful and prescient.
9.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Clock strikes true with surreal, character-based terror By: Lauren Coates Writer/director Alexis Jacknow's feature debut boasts strong craft and a stupendous, frightening turn from Diana Argon as a woman coming undone.