Longlegs Is Mostly TerrifyingThis tense, odd thriller mines the horror of ordinary people compelled to do terrible things — an unnerving reflection of modern anxieties.
Catherine Breillat Is Back, BabyThe transgressive French filmmaker is in fine, fucked-up form with Last Summer, about a middle-age lawyer who starts sleeping with her stepson.
I Never Want to See This Movie AgainThe Devil’s Bath, a twisted horror drama from the directors of Goodnight Mommy, is both deeply captivating and deeply upsetting.
Dakota Johnson Is Actually Great in DaddioSean Penn is better than he’s been in years in Christy Hall’s old-fashioned strangers-in-a-cab drama. But Johnson nearly acts him off the screen.
Miyazaki Didn’t Lose a StepBack from temporary retirement, Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film, The Boy and the Heron, is a reminder of what makes him an animation legend.
Janet Planet Will Grow on YouAnnie Baker’s coming-of-age film features a career-best performance from Julianne Nicholson as a crunchy single mom living in Western Massachusetts.
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Sicko Yorgos Is BackYorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness delights and luxuriates in absurdity and abasement. He’s fully back in his sandbox.
The Watchers Squanders Its Creepy PremiseM. Night Shyamalan’s daughter makes her directorial debut with a horror movie about reality TV and the strange creatures that watch it.
It’s No Wonder That Cannes Fell for AnoraThere are wild moments in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner that feel like real life letting itself in through the door and upending the narrative décor.
