The Dark-Horse Oscar Contender Everyone’s Watching
Society of the Snow is an often-nightmarish—but wildly absorbing—viewing experience.
Film
A Musical Reboot That Can’t Cross the Generational Gap
The reboot of the classic teen comedy Mean Girls sands off its source material’s edges, to mixed results.
What Was Jo Koy Thinking?
Hosting awards shows is a truly thankless job.
American Fiction Is More Than a Racial Satire
The film dramatizes the quotidian absurdities that many Black writers face during their career.
Nine Underrated Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Hollywood’s awards shows will overlook these films—but you shouldn’t.
Ferrari Puts You Right in the Driver’s Seat
“People are either down for what this movie is or they’re not.”
The New The Color Purple Finds Its Own Rhythm
The movie musical is a tear-jerking and exultant epic that also works as a companion piece to the 1985 original.
Zack Snyder, the Director People Love to Hate
How did one of Hollywood’s most successful and influential filmmakers also become one of its most divisive?
A Feel-Bad Movie in the Best Way Possible
The Iron Claw, a new biopic about the tragic Von Erich brothers, is rich with feeling and never despairing.
The Sound of Cruelty
The Zone of Interest is an eerie and restrained study of the Holocaust that never shows a single frame of the atrocity.