Booksmart
A stellar high school comedy with an A+ cast, a brilliant script loaded with witty dialogue, eye-catching cinematography, swift editing, and a danceable soundtrack.
All Creatures Here Below
A poor couple's life that goes from bad to worse to even worse.
What's Next: Marvel, the serials, and the future
Return now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
The Biggest Little Farm
If you grew up reading storybooks about small family farms stocked with ducks and pigs and lambs and loyal sheepdogs, the documentary "The Biggest Little Farm" will probably make you happy. Its main characters (one of whom is also the filmmaker) left urban life and got into farming because they'd spent their entire lives carrying around those kinds of nostalgic images in their heads. The reality of farming proves to be a lot less rosy, of course—a fact telegraphed in the movie's ominous flash-forward opening, which heralds a Biblically-scaled natural disaster that the farmers will have to survive somehow.
Pasolini
Abel Ferrara's scattered but distinctive and often lovely biography of the controversial director.
Shadow
After a laborious start comes an action film of geometric beauty and precision.
The Unloved, Part 65: Orphan
The latest in Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Jaume Collet-Serra's 2009 film, Orphan.
What's Next: Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones, and the Content Endgame
A piece on the the culminations of Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones.
Hail Satan?
Buried somewhere in this smart but somewhat disorganized and repetitious movie about The Satanic Temple is a trickier, potentially deeper and more all-encompassing work.
Mine 9
A low-budget survival film with grand ambitions, set in the real world.
Missing Link
An old-fashioned adventure movie, more interested in characters, atmosphere, and eye-popping locations than in fight scenes and chases.
