Drama, Western
Hostiles

Hostiles shows us, viscerally, that hatred and violence in any age are horrible things.

Drama
The Post

It’s not fake news to say that this story is pretty compelling.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Kids
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

While trying to craft something for your typical 13-year-old’s enjoyment, the new Jumanji writing team dumbed things down.

Comedy
Just Getting Started

Just Getting Started? I couldn’t wait for it to end.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water is an odd, beautiful, jarring, graphically problematic kettle of fish.

Drama
Wonder Wheel

Woody Allen goes dark with Wonder Wheel, a movie far more bleak and more adult than its PG-13 rating would …

Comedy
The Disaster Artist

Explicit content turns The Disaster Artist into a bad movie about a bad movie.

Drama
Novitiate

Novitiate, like many of its characters, walks away from this curious form of faith a bit bewildered, a bit disgusted.

Drama, Romance
Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name celebrates the lie of a culture that’s determined to crown every individual the king or …

Drama
Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Roman J. Israel Esq. tells us that not only is virtue its own reward, it is, ultimately, the only one.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Justice League

In a year filled with top-flight superhero movies, DC’s answer to Marvel’s Avengers barely gets off the ground.

Comedy, Drama
The Florida Project

This movie felt like a tragedy to me: a tiny family slowly drowning—incapable of swimming, unwilling to grab lifelines dangling …

Comedy, Drama
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

British writer/director Martin McDonagh paints a discordant picture here of an awful, provincialized middle America.

Comedy
Daddy’s Home 2

Between put-downs, profanity and off-color gags, this movie still manages to say something about how important dads are.

Comedy, Drama
Lady Bird

This coming-of-age film drills down into the intimate micro-contradictions of life even as it explodes onscreen with many visually problematic …