Festivals Fantastic Fest 2025 Missives, Part 2 By: Lisa Laman Lisa Laman rounds out her Fantastic Fest 2025 coverage with a look at two more films showing at the unique and long-running festival.
Festivals Fantastic Fest 2025 Missives, Part 1 By: Lisa Laman Lisa Laman dives into Fantastic Fest 2025's unique and compelling lineup to deliver a collection of reviews people may otherwise miss.
9.8 BEST NEW MOVIE Are We Good? is a meditation on loss, grief, and life itself By: Sarah Gorr The power of the new Marc Maron doc is its ability to speak so beautifully to the human experience while using the comedian as its lens.
9.8 BEST NEW MOVIE If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a tale of motherhood with serious teeth By: Sarah Gorr Rose Byrne gives the performance of a lifetime in this original and unconventional depiction of motherhood’s unspoken horrors.
9.6 BEST NEW MOVIE PTA wins countless creative wars in One Battle After Another By: Lisa Laman Leonardo DiCaprio and Chase Infinity headline this propulsive political thriller that has no shortage of great visuals and chase scenes.
7.3 Reviews The Lost Bus tensely careens with ciphers in the seats By: Tim Stevens Paul Greengrass’s latest will leave audiences gripping their armrests despite paper thin characters.
8.6 BEST NEW SHOW Slow Horses Season 5 stumbles for the first time By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s slobs as spies series remains excellent, just not as excellent.
4.4 Reviews Shockingly hollow HIM fumbles By: Lisa Laman The Jordan Peale-produced football horror film wastes potential on an overly derivative story that's too buttoned up for its own good.
6.3 Reviews Snark interferes with taking A Big Bold Beautiful Journey By: Lisa Laman Vibrant and featuring two great leads, Beautiful Journey is nonetheless too often self-conscious when it should be captivatingly romantic.
8.3 BEST NEW MOVIE The Long Walk is a grueling tour de force By: Lisa Laman Folks wary of subpar Stephen King adaptations need not fret his latest is unexpectedly exceptional.
7.4 Reviews The Girlfriend makes for a trashy, fun weekend binge By: Tim Stevens But hold off on putting a ring on it, no matter how easy the Prime Video series goes down easy.
9.0 BEST NEW MOVIE The History of Sound artfully celebrates the romance and heart of American music By: Sarah Gorr Mescal and O’Connor stun, but it’s screenwriter Ben Shattuck’s willingness to deviate from his own source material that makes the film shine.
8.2 BEST NEW MOVIE Lee and Washington take a victory lap in Highest 2 Lowest By: Tim Stevens The jittery uneven thriller doubles as a love letter to the director’s favorite city and star.
4.1 Reviews Honey Don’t! check out the new Ethan Coen misfire By: Lisa Laman Ethan Coen's second lesbian dark comedy is a far cry from the takes on the noir template he delivered with his brother.
8.3 BEST NEW MOVIE Ne Zha 2 is a legendarily towering triumph of animated spectacle By: Lisa Laman Ne Zha 2, now out in an English language dub, is a staggering leap in quality and scope over its predecessor.
6.5 Reviews Nobody can beat Nobody, especially Nobody 2 By: Lisa Laman The improbable "Bob Odenkirk as badass" sequel is an amiable, albeit excessively dialogue-reliant, action movie trip that nonetheless falls short of the original.
6.8 Reviews Night Always Comes but struggles with balance By: Tim Stevens A standout Vanessa Kirby can’t overcome a film divided against itself.
6.4 Reviews Saiyaara only sparodicially captures your heart By: Lisa Laman Saiyaara has its enthralling moments, but its second half goes down predictable territory that see's it losing its harmony.
9.1 BEST NEW MOVIE Weapons leaves a chaotic and enthralling blast radius By: Lisa Laman As entertaining as it is well-filmed Barbarian's director Zach Cregger has done it again with his new eerie, impeccably realized horror feature.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Demascus take viewers down a flawed, interesting road By: Tim Stevens An AMC cast-off, the sci-fi dramedy finds a home at Tubi, thank goodness.
7.9 Reviews She Rides Shotgun on a grim but compelling road trip By: Lisa Laman The new Taron Egerton-starring thriller rivetingly explores a moving and dangerous father/daughter dynamic