The animation studio returns with a movie about a teenage sea monster who must confront family secrets while navigating high school. You’ve encountered Ruby Gillman,
John Gallagher Jr. costars in Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s latest, which world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. As the war in Ukraine creates ever growing tensions
Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, Alice Troughton’s feature debut is a sly take on art and ego. Alice Troughton’s first feature is a jewel,
Woody Harrelson also stars in Laura Chinn’s first feature as writer-director, inspired by her own family’s painful personal history. BY DAVID ROONEY There’s a core
After the former SNL writer came out as trans, she and the comedian traveled across America to process her transition and reaffirm their friendship. BY
Directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae look at a program that reunites girls with their incarcerated fathers for an emotional daddy-daughter dance. BY DANIEL FIENBERG
Two women investigate the real person behind an educational software from the ’80s, raising urgent questions about our relationship to technology. BY LOVIA GYARKYE If you
Chris Smith offers a welcome corrective to the misconception that the band from industrial Ohio were one-hit wonders or that their eccentricities didn’t have philosophical
Dutch directing duo Steffen & Flip’s first English-language feature stars Nick Frost and Alicia Silverstone as fictional TV parents stuck in an ultra-violent episode. BY JORDAN
Tika Sumpter and Mike Epps co-star in the R-rated Amazon Prime sports flick, which was produced by Kenya Barris. BY JORDAN MINTZER Taking the inspirational
Netflix made the largest acquisition out of Sundance 2024, paying $17 million for Greg Jardin’s psychological thriller about a reunited group of college friends and
Talia Ryder, Gaby Hoffmann and Dominic Fike co-star in Jack Begert’s satire about thwarted ambition. BY LOVIA GYARKYE There’s an admirable ambition to Jack Begert’s
In Shuchi Talati’s debut feature, a mother’s intervention in her teenage daughter’s budding romance creates an unexpected emotional love triangle. BY LOVIA GYARKYE Before Mira
Inspired by Terry Masear’s book about her work with the world’s smallest birds, Sally Aitken’s documentary follows her during a busy caretaking season in Los
The essay-like Netflix film from the ‘Strong Island’ director delves into the origins and implications of modern police violence in the United States. BY JOURDAIN
The intersex actor and the ‘Maze Runner’ star play a sex worker and a goofy gangster, respectively, in a crime drama directed by Esteban Arango.
In Klaudia Reynicke’s third feature, a father reconnects with his daughters during a tumultuous summer in Lima. BY LOVIA GYARKYE Klaudia Reynicke’s compact feature Reinas deals
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance with this look at the difficulty and necessity
Angela Bassett and Colin Hanks also feature in the voice cast of this Netflix premiere, an adaptation of Emma Yarlett’s children’s book about an anxious
Director Matthew Vaughn and screenwriter Jason Fuchs offer up a spoof of espionage antics, with a side order of romance, starring Bryce Dallas Howard and
David Schickele’s rarely seen feature stars Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as a version of himself, a Nigerian graduate student navigating the countercultural flowering and political
BY SHERI LINDEN When, in the opening minutes of Natatorium, a fresh-faced teen arrives at a blocky modernist showplace of a house, it seems she’s checking
Zelda Williams directs the reanimation romance about a high-school outsider and the Victorian-era corpse she summons from the grave. BY DAVID ROONEY If your idea
BY LESLIE FELPERIN When British producer-director Matthew Vaughn’s latest had its red-carpet premiere in London in mid-January 2024, the film made local headlines for reasons probably
BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK Spurned by many critics and consumers alike, Matthew Vaughn‘s pricey spy-comedy Argylle is bombing at the North American box office in the biggest
A Chinese-American teenager takes on evil forces with the assistance of animal warriors in this animated yarn with voice work from Lucy Liu, Bowen Yang,
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: MAYA is a drama for adults. Maya is a 15-year-old girl struggling to survive in a household with her alcoholic
The Von Erich brothers are kings of the 1980s wrestling scene. When tragedy hits, eldest brother Kevin (Efron) begins to question their livelihood. Original Title:
In 2014 Hong Kong, a group of wealthy expatriates and their local employees are shaken when the young son of one of their members disappears.
Hasan Oswald’s film, which won DOC NYC’s Grand Jury Prize and counts Emma Thompson as an executive producer, composes a revelatory portrait of a young
Jeff Rowe’s ‘Mutant Mayhem’ does get a bit indulgent at times, but still remains so cool, so funny and so slick that it’s easily one
Government whistleblower Ewan (Amit Shah) and his Flemish wife Silke (Sura Dohnke) are hiding out in a remote house in East Flanders, Belgium. When a
After Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) rescues a young boy from the clutches of a predatory trafficker on the US border, he vows
With his rubbery powers and love of adventure, Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) is on a grand quest to find the fabled treasure known as
3 out of 5 stars‘District 9’ director Neill Blomkamp delivers a few minutes of thunder in this glossy exercise in brand veneration Product placement is
ogs say (and hump) the darndest things in this fun, foul-mouthed, low-stakes comedy This summer has seen a slew of movies that look like kids’
French director-star Louis Garrel’s fourth film is a fun, scattershot caper comedy that never truly convinces There’s a scene in The Innocent where Clémence, played
4 out of 5 stars Anime at its most kinetic, this supercharged teen basketball drama is beat poetry in motion It’s no surprise that this
Wes Anderson’s chatterbox Roald Dahl tale is a Netflix short that’s deliciously decorative but lacking in bite The first result of Netflix’s megabucks purchase of
Bradley Cooper’s elegant, ambitious biopic is a symphonic love story with sparkling, awards-worthy performances Composer, conductor, musician, cultural titan, and at least in a parallel
Yorgos Lanthimos’s feminist Frankenstein comedy is scabrous, smart and obscenely funny Alasdair Gray’s criminally underread 1992 novel has been fashioned into an ebullient, mischievous, and
This am-dram mockumentary is funny, fabulous and brimming with heart It’s tough to take the piss out of something in a loving, affirmative way. For
This cartwheeling, dad-and-daughter story buzzes with rascally energy Like Aftersun on a gallon of SunnyD, this warm and freewheeling comedy-drama about a girl connecting with the dad
Antony Starr and Cleopatra Coleman also star in Samuel Bodin’s horror movie, with ‘C’mon C’mon’ discovery Woody Norman as the boy hearing bumps in the
Sarah Snook and Geraldine Viswanathan co-star in this comedy-drama telling the behind-the-scenes story of the Beanie Babies phenomenon. It used to be that aspiring filmmakers
Joel Kinnaman co-stars in Yuval Adler’s violent two-hander about a driver and passenger engaging in a long duel of death. Like the pain scales that
Rosario Dawson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto and Danny DeVito also appear in this latest movie inspired by a theme park attraction. If you’ve ridden
In Vicky Wight’s movie, the ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ star plays a recent divorcee who embarks on a hiking trip to find herself. The premise of