Reviews Skywalkers: A Love Story stumbles while climbing up grand visual heights By: Lisa Laman For all the documentary's visual splendor, it's extra disappointing how much of the proceedings rely on dialogue.
6.5 Reviews Those About to Die is mostly just bread & circuses By: Megan Sunday Peacock's lush historical drama can't move past its rushed & shallow plot.
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.
7.0 Reviews Kill goes in when taking names and faces but stumbles elsewhere By: Justin Harrison The Hindi "Die Hard on a train" actioner is worth seeing, but it's not an all-timer.
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.
4.0 Reviews MaXXXine shoots for stardom but falls scarily short By: Zachary Lee Ti West's conclusion to the Mia Goth-starring horror trilogy dives too far into pastiche, and loses what made the first two films so intriguing.
8.3 BEST NEW MOVIE Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants leaves the locker room for the front office By: Tim Stevens The long-running doc series shifts its focus to a more serious tone and what happens with management with intriguing results.
2.5 Reviews In Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The Heat Is Definitely Off By: Peter Sobczynski Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F dons the badge only to deliver a wheezy depressing collection of franchise tropes.
3.5 Reviews Daddio’s intimate ride is more cramped than compelling By: Lisa Laman Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson can't make Christy Hall's single-location taxi drama sing, thanks to a cramped visual style.
5.0 Reviews Kevin Costner chases the forbidden West in leaden prologue Horizon: An American Saga – Part 1 By: Clint Worthington Kevin Costner's sprawling return to directing (and the Old West) is a sluggish setup for a more interesting epic to come.
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.
6.5 Reviews WondLa takes the viewer on an incredible journey that they’ll know every step of By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s adaptation of the middle grade book series' first book offers nothing you haven’t seen before.
6.6 Reviews Orphan Black Echoes gives fans a faded reflection of past glories By: Tim Stevens The newest series in the Orphan Black Universe offers intriguing ideas and a strong lead but can’t shake the feel of been there, done that better.
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.
7.0 Reviews The power of Crowe compels The Exorcism By: Clint Worthington Russell Crowe throws on priest robes once more to battle evil -- this time as an actor possessed by his own demons.
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.
4.0 Reviews The Bikeriders beholds a tepid tale of Midwestern biker gangs By: Peter Sobczynski Structurally confused, dramatically inert, and ultimately meandering, The Bikeriders baffles.
Reviews Janet Planet’s dreamy summer haze makes it easy to get caught in its orbit By: Sarah Gorr Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s first feature turns a quiet coming-of-age story into an exciting debut.
9.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Tuesday tackles the heaviness of death with a feather-light touch By: B.L. Panther Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s singular debut feature migrates across space and scale with poignant ease.
7.6 Reviews Inside Out 2 is a charming and mostly moving return to a person’s mind By: Lisa Laman Pixar's latest sequel is another one of the studio's pleasant, but hardly groundbreaking, followups.