Film Reviews

We yearn to believe what Arrival has to tell us -- that life on earth isn't all there is, that we're connected to the cosmos, that time flows more mysteriously than we can fathom.

Loving, a new movie by Jess Nichols about a landmark civil rights case, is new in style too -- calm, human, deeply moving -- one of the best movies of the year.

Fire at Sea is Gianfranco Rosi's profoundly moving documentary on the migrant tides transforming our wold, and the connections in it are as revelatory as they are mysterious.

Just when you think you know what's going to happen, American Honey serves up one more surprise.

A poor Ugandan girl's chess skills take her around the world.

Hell or High Water is one of the most enjoyable films I've seen in a very long time, following two brothers on a bank-robbing spree in a desolate part of west Texas where the banks themselves are seen as robbers.

It's not exactly breaking news, but Meryl Streep is remarkable, and her latest showcase is Florence Foster Jenkins.

Suicide Squad amounts to an all-out attack on the whole idea of entertainment.

Jason Bourne used to be an amnesiac. Now he remember who he is, but this latest episode of the franchise forgot to make him human.

It looks big, with plenty of cosmic battles, but it feels smallish, a congenial adventure with familiar friends.

Captain Fantastic is a terrifically accomplished and enjoyable film about a singular household.

Spielberg uses digital wizardry to throw spectacular dreams of friendship and adventure on the big screen.

In Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a goofball preacher tells a tiny group of mourners that sometimes in life we may feel "like a sheep trapped in a maze designed by wolves."

Finding Dory can be touching, sweet and tender, but it's preposterously and terrifically funny.

Morgan Neville's documentary is a joyous revelation, a group portrait of superb musicians from all over the world offering music as an emblem of what people can do in these troubled times when they live in concert with one another.