TV & Movies Reviews

Will Arnett and director Bradley Cooper turn a sad dad turned stand-up story into a totally unexpected, left-field triumph

James Cameron’s blockbuster saga returns with more battles, more eye candy, and enough déjà vu to make you feel blue

Josh Safdie gifts the star with a gritty, giddy sports movie that pays tribute to the do-or-die grindset — and brings out the best in both of them

This political thriller starring Narcos’ Wagner Moura doubles as a personal look back in anger at the past, and a reminder that time doesn’t heal all wounds. See it ASAP

Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller are an old married couple who live, laugh, love, die, and are reunited in limbo — but there’s a twist

An abandoned movie on hunting the Zodiac Killer turns into a side-eyed look at something even more rampant than mass murder: true-crime documentaries

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo return to finish what they started in this less-than-Oz-some finale of the Broadway musical adaptation

Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe’s thriller follows a man looking for his M.I.A. daughter in the desert rave scene. It’s a trip in more ways than one

We know that there’s a cabin in the woods, and a cake, and Tatiana Maslany is definitely in trouble. And that Osgood Perkins’ latest creepshow is more about a vibe than a story

The world-famous movie star plays a world-famous movie star in the middle of a deep existential crisis. Why yes, it is supposed to be meta!

Anchored by a career-high performance from Joel Edgerton, this tale of a stoic railroad laborer who experiences love and tragedy is a modest modern masterpiece

Edgar Wright and Glen Powell would like to remind folks that we’re amusing ourselves to death, the rich hate the poor, and we’re all pretty screwed

The Worst Person in the World director Joachim Trier returns with a comedy-drama that blurs the lines between art, life, and family. It’s phenomenal

The actor goes for broke in this story of a new mother losing her grip — and gives what may be the most unique, untethered performance of her post-Hunger Games career

The sci-fi franchise best known for interstellar hunters stalking humans asks: What do you get when you pair a chatty android with the killer of killers?

Richard Linklater’s brilliant, breezy look back at the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut will indeed leave you breathless

The actor tackles a landmark theatrical drama and leaves plenty of scars, diva-ish side-eyes and debris in her wake

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost is a tribute, a therapy session, and a look at balancing professional and personal lives that sometimes gets brutal

Kathryn Bigelow returns to remind you that the threat of nuclear war is still alive and kicking — which is more than you can say for this thriller

Yorgos Lanthimos’ remake of a cult movie deals in conspiracy theories, corporate doublespeak, and celebrity weirdness being a plus. In other words: our current reality

Jeremy Allen White gives us a moody, mercurial Boss in a look back at the making of Springsteen’s bleak-rock masterpiece Nebraska

Aziz Ansari writes, directs and stars in a fantasy-comedy about the gig-economy blues, co-starring Seth Rogen — but it’s a divine Reeves who steals this movie

Iranian director Jafar Panahi turns a tale of vengeance into a look at the toll of settling scores — and gives us one of the most deceptively profound movies of the year

The star and Richard Linklater deliver a glimpse of Broadway legend Lorenz Hart that’s less a biopic than a backstage tragedy

Netflix drama from the director of Conclave puts its chips on the star’s ability to play a high-roller sprinting toward rock bottom. Smart bet

Broadway musical hit gets slow-and-J.Lo adaptation, for better or worse

This dark, relentless A24 comedy about Rose Byrne fighting a hostile world — and losing — answers the question: What if you made an Uncut Gems for moms?

It takes a lot of hard work and the perfect alignment of movie stars to make a social drama this irredeemably awful

The ‘Magic Mike’ star launches a full-on charm offensive in this true-crime romantic comedy about a fugitive who falls in love while laying low in a toystore

The third entry in the vintage 1980s franchise looks sleek, plays to the superfans, and feels like every other tech-bro–centric blockbuster you’ve ever seen

The five-part Apple docuseries is everything a fan of the director of ‘Taxi Driver,’ ‘Goodfellas,’ and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ could want — and more

The Netflix movie Steve offers a showcase for the Oscar-winner. You just have to endure a cluttered social drama to check it out

Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 looks at the writer who gave us a modern dystopian classic — and doubles as a portrait of how authoritarianism works that feels way too familiar

Dwayne Johnson goes for broke in this sports biopic about MMA star Mark Kerr that’s more mellow mood piece than battle royale

Yes, the Oscar winner’s performance as a recluse dealing with his traumatic past reminds us why he’s a legend. Yet this familial drama is anything but a mere showcase

The actor’s directorial debut focuses on an intergenerational friendship, a white lie, and the star power of June Squibb

Thank god this Jordan Peele-produced social thriller about a young quarterback selling his soul for GOAT status looks good and has Marlon Wayans in beast mode

That’s not a compliment, and you wish someone would swoop in and rescue Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie from this mess

Paul Thomas Anderson’s stunning, thundering thriller about fathers, failed revolutions and our fucked-up moment is, without a doubt, the movie of the year

After a night of tired gags and wonky moments, the Late Show host came to the rescue and punched a higher floor

Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer get the band back together for one short, loud goodbye

With ‘The Grand Finale,’ the TV-to-movie series that sold British aristocracy as quaint nostalgia bows out with one last curtain call

The filmmaker, aided by an extraordinary turn from Jacob Elordi, finally brings his vision of modern Prometheus and his misunderstood creation to the screen

Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, and director Chloé Zhao turn Shakespeare’s real-life tragedy into a heartbreaking portrait of love, loss, and the healing power of art

This dark and soapy miniseries pits Robin Wright against Olivia Cooke in a battle for the love of a young man

How Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig keep making these clever, old-school whodunnits so compelling and entertaining is truly elementary

Canceled revisits the fall of the Queen of Southern Cooking and asks: Does she deserve a second chance?

With Christy — a biopic on boxer Christy Martin — the controversy-attracting actor enters the awards-season ring

‘John Candy: I Like Me,’ a portrait of the late actor, opens the Toronto International Film Festival with laughter, tears, and more laughter

The team behind the legendary sitcom tries to revive that ol’ Dunder Mifflin feeling with this quasi-spinoff set at a failing newspaper

Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby’s new series returns to Delaware County, Pennsylvania (weird accents included), for another dour crime thriller that moves slowly but builds to a satisfying conclusion

Darren Aronofsky’s wild ride through Nineties NYC has gunfights, car chases, Hasidic gangsters, and an adorable cat — but its star is the main attraction

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch make a strong case for remaking The War of the Roses — and doubling down on some seriously British nastiness

Trust us, this tale of fan who fights to stay in an up-and-coming singer’s entourage is the when-stans-attack thriller you need

BoJack Horseman co-creators Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Lisa Hanawalt return with an animated show about the trials and tribulations of a modern Jewish family

If you like polyamory, dysfunctional relationships, sex, violence, rom-coms, and Dakota Johnson, we have a movie for you

Her performance as a wisecrackin’, hard-lovin’ gumshoe investigating the death of a young woman is the best thing about Ethan Coen’s take on the private-eye flick

Julia Loktev’s long, hard look at Russia’s suppression of free speech is a chilling portrait of how authoritarianism works. It looks eerily familiar right now

The latest installment of James Gunn’s series about DC’s alt-right quasi-hero focuses on the man underneath the bucket helmet, Chris Smith, and the unhappy turn his life has taken

Everyone’s favorite normcore Rambo is back, now with twice the middle-aged dad anxiety and Sharon Stone going full camp

The fact that Netflix didn’t let Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky call his horny-canine comedy Doggy Style is the only sign of restraint here

This meme-fodder remake starring Ice Cube will actively destroy your brain cells without the added benefit of being fun

Attention, millennials: The long-awaited sequel to the Jamie Lee Curtis-Lindsay Lohan body-swap classic is finally here, and it’s kind of great

Once upon a time, this Seth Rogen-Rose Byrne show would have been playing at a theater near you. The movies’ loss is the streaming era’s gain

Writer-director Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian drops Julia Garner and Josh Brolin into a nightmare involving missing kids, communal paranoia, and chaos

Noah Hawley’s TV-series addition to the Aliens universe melds a Peter Pan story onto the original movie tales, and it mostly works

Alison Brie and Dave Franco remind you that love means never having to say you’re sorry, but you may have to occasionally saw each other’s limbs apart

The four-episode animated series features dazzling action sequences and fresh stories to illustrate Wakanda’s huge significance in the wider world

Big action scenes are too few and too late in Jason Momoa’s new Apple TV+ series, a historical epic about the late-18th-century battle to unify the Hawaiian islands

The actor goes full Leslie Nielsen with this reboot filled with dick jokes, deadpan hilarity, sight gags, and more dick jokes

The Sandman’s bad boy of the links returns, complete with callbacks, celebrity cameos, and enough fan service to choke a one-eyed alligator

Logan Lerman and Molly Gordon rent a house in the woods for their first trip together as a couple. Then things get a little cuckoo

No, the best screen version to date of the Fantastic Four doesn’t fully break the curse regarding the first family of superheroes and the movies

Like the man himself, the two-part Billy Joel: And So It Goes pulls few punches on his life and foibles

This is the kind of refresh-slash-sequel that gives franchise reboots a bad name

Lena Dunham’s new Netflix series has moments of hilarity, great chemistry between its leads, and snappy star cameos. But its main character isn’t quite sure who she is — so the show isn’t either

James Gunn’s reboot of the DC Cinematic Universe kicks off with some deep-cut super-friends and a breezier touch that captures the Silver Age version of the Man of Steel

Horror-survivalist thriller pits the Till star against ravaging cannibals. They never had a chance

Immortals, Charlize Theron, Netflix franchise, a sequel — you know the drill

Scarlett Johansson leads a crew of explorers into uncharted territory — and very familiar blockbuster terrain — in yet another dinos-run-amuck adventure

The writer-director-actor tells a tragicomic story about life, love, and trauma — and delivers something close to a perfect debut

After an uneven third season, the FX sensation returns to tense, heartwarmingly chaotic, and satisfying form

So the horror doll is now an action hero? Fighting tech bros with kung fu? WTF is going on here?

The latest Marvel/Disney+ series, centered around Dominique Thorne’s mecha-suited genius, feels like a relic from a past throw-it-against-the-wall MCU era

The animation company’s latest involves a lonely boy, his alien bestie, the need for communication over carnage and the saving graces of finding a friend. At least it’s not ‘Cars’

Danny Boyle and his key collaborators behind ’28 Days Later…’ return to the post-pandemic, postapocalyptic world of their 2002 horror movie. It was worth the wait

Adult Swim’s animated satire is one of the best new shows of the year

It doesn’t just run laps around most racing movies — this throwback is the perfect combo of horse power and star power

You’ll want to bail on this Apple TV+ drama about an arson investigator and a detective after the first episode. Stick with it

Best Wishes to All suggests that happiness is not an endlessly renewable currency — and that the privilege of being content in one’s life always comes with a price

Don’t let the presence of Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney fool you — this is the sort of vintage cinema du grilled cheese associated with the basic-cable channel back in the day

Celine Song’s follow-up to Past Lives breaks down the economics of love, featuring not one but two internet boyfriends

DreamWorks Animation gets into the live-action game with this redo of the 2010 fantasy about a boy and his giant, fire-breathing best friend. Sure, why not?

An adaptation of a Stephen King novella ponders life, the universe, and everything. Really, it’s just about what happens when you let the Loki star hoof it

After a decade hiatus, an unexpected fifth season of the winning animated series advances the characters’ stories without departing from its established formula for success

Ana de Armas attempts to keep the Wickiverse running (with a little help from Wick himself) in this nice-try franchise expansion pack

Trying to follow a Ted Lasso model, the series tees off to a shaky start, but eventually finds its groove thanks to its leading man, playing a washed-up former pro

Succession mastermind Jesse Armstrong gives us a satire about the rich taking over the world that’s half tech-bro Dr. Strangelove, half apocalypse documentary

The sibling duo behind the A24 horror hit return with a follow-up that’s smarter, nastier — and far scarier

Everyone else will feel like this is just another mix of nostalgia-bait, intellectual-property raiding, and a million sports-movie montages masquerading as a blockbuster