Reviews The First Lady pulls back the curtain on the East Wing By: Beau North Despite three excellent performances, Showtime’s new limited series is hardly groundbreaking.
Reviews It would take a holy miracle to salvage Father Stu By: Lisa Laman Mark Wahlberg and director Rosalind Ross can’t make this faith-based drama work.
Reviews Aline sings a haunting song By: B.L. Panther The barely legal biopic feels the specter of Celine.
Reviews Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off treats its subject as a bruised enigma By: Gena Radcliffe Various talking heads have more to say about the legendary skateboarder than he does in Sam Jones’ otherwise well-made documentary
Reviews A Black Lady Sketch Show tags back in for a knockout season 3 By: Ashley Lara The freshest voices in comedy return for a riotous season of fan favorites and new material.
Features “Welcome home”: Cat People at 40 Paul Schrader's kinky erotic thriller offered both style & substance, and still holds up
Reviews Metal Lords can’t carry a tune, or a good story, in a bucket By: Lisa Laman This heavy metal teen comedy is a colossal misallocation of characters and tone.
Reviews Michael Bay’s Ambulance resuscitates the mid-budget heist thriller By: Clint Worthington Armed with $40 million worth of drones and Jake Gyllenhaal, the action auteur delivers one of his most relentlessly entertaining exercises in cinematic excess.
Recap Star Trek: Picard tries to sing a medley without a melody The season’s sixth episode is a collection of strange choices and narrative odds and ends.
Reviews Everything Everywhere All at Once, Michelle Yeoh, and Daniels go for broke with style and wisdom By: Justin Harrison The Daniels' mega movie is both glorious reminder of the multitude of ways Michelle Yeoh rules and a smart study of the work that goes into doing good.
Reviews Cow delivers a thoughtful but crushing look inside dairy farm By: Sean Price Andrea Arnold brings her strong eye and empathy skills to non-fiction with a raw but beautiful documentary about the life of a cow trapped in an industrialized dairy farm.
Recap Ru Paul’s Drag Race roast episode arrives expired Tired and overdone jokes predictably pork this season’s roast.
Reviews Sonic the Hedgehog 2 zooms forward to a better, albeit disjointed adventure By: Lisa Laman The blue blur's sequel rolls around at the speed of sound to the tune of messy but often fun results.
Reviews Julia is a soufflé that suffers By: B.L. Panther This sweet-hearted series based on Julia Child's foray into television boasts rich performances and weak execution.
Reviews Slow Horses moves quick By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+'s new spy offering focuses on failures, but turns out to be anything but.
Reviews The Contractor is an empty exercise in action movie nostalgia By: Michael Frank Tarik Saleh directs Chris Pine in a mediocre military conspiracy thriller that checks off all the dad movie boxes.
Recap Star Trek: Picard aims for fan fiction, falls short badly A plethora of familiar faces and reheated plots sink Jean-Luc’s 2024 adventures.
Reviews Nitram brings precision, intimacy to a horrific historical moment By: Michael Frank Justin Kurzel’s latest showcases an incredible Caleb Landry Jones performance.
Reviews Moon Knight’s quality waxes and wanes By: Tim Stevens The MCU's latest streaming series gets weird, but it only partially works.
Features 2002: the year Robin Williams scared the bejesus out of everyone The beloved comedian already proved he could do serious, but in this trio of very different movies he also did creepy.
Features Bright Star: The immaturity and immensity of looking  By: Eric Langberg Jane Campion's chronicle of Fannie Brawne and Romantic poet John Keats' courtship is a masterful study of longing and star power.