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Neil Young Calls Digger 'Best Film Ever'
Neil Young calls Tom Cruise's 'Digger' the best film he's ever seen.
Rolling Stone · 1m
Sense and Sensibility Steals Pride and Prejudice's Crown
Georgia Oakley's Sense and Sensibility outshines Pride and Prejudice as Austen's most beloved adaptation.
Collider · 1m
Artificial: OpenAI's Rise and Fall
Luca Guadagnino's film exposes Sam Altman's manipulative rise in OpenAI's origins.
AV Club · 1m
Digger is bold, brilliant and a box office bomb
Tom Cruise stars in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's divisive climate satire that flopped commercially but may become a cult classic.
Ars Technica · 2m
Gibney's Musk doc splits into two films
Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney's four-hour documentary presents Elon Musk as a confidence man rather than a visionary, but struggles with its own structure.
Ars Technica · 2m
Wildwood Review: Laika's Stop-Motion Epic Lacks Magic
Laika's stop-motion film Wildwood misses the magic of their best movies.
IndieWire · 1m
Rosalind Eleazar shreds expectations in Misty Green
Chris Rock's film follows a gifted but self-destructive actor facing homelessness and the cruelty of an industry that measures her by her last role.
TIME · 1m
Drinking and Driving Review
Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank's film questions if rural hedonism can lead to transcendence.
IndieWire · 1m
The Social Reckoning: Sorkin's journalism thriller
Aaron Sorkin directs a brisk account of how a Wall Street Journal reporter and Facebook engineer exposed the platform's role in amplifying extremism before January 6.
TIME · 2m
Animals Review: Ben Affleck's Netflix Thriller
Ben Affleck's Netflix thriller Animals fails to thrill despite AI use.
SlashFilm · 1m
Alejandro Iñárritu prefers Digger's negative reception
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu expects Digger's negative reception.
AV Club · 1m
Tom Cruise's Digger Movie Review
Tom Cruise's new movie Digger fails to deliver on its environmental message and meta-narrative.
Slate Magazine · 2m
Pedro Pascal's Perfect Role in Behemoth
Pedro Pascal delivers a career-defining performance in Tony Gilroy's musical drama Behemoth.
SlashFilm · 1m
The Smell of Apples Review
John Trengove's film exposes apartheid-era privilege through a child's chilling perspective.
Variety · 1m
Tom Cruise bloviates through Iñárritu's empty environmental farce
Digger is a thematically clumsy environmental parable that mistakes elaborate filmmaking for meaningful storytelling.
TIME · 2m
Shaun the Sheep Returns for Silly Halloween Fun
Aardman's Shaun the Sheep brings playful chaos to Halloween with fresh charm.
Variety · 1m
Murderous Film Review
Neil LaBute's new film fails with obvious plot twists.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! finds joy after loss
A widow rediscovers desire and dance after her husband's death in Josef Kubota Wladyka's bittersweet comedy.
TIME · 1m
Ali finds grace in faith and fatherhood
Mahershala Ali plays a hit man grappling with rage at God while raising three children alone in Bassam Tariq's audacious action thriller.
TIME · 1m
Rebel Wilson's 'Girl Group' is derivative pop nonsense
Wilson's directorial follow-up lacks originality, humor, and narrative drive.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Resident Evil reboot trades depth for funky monster mayhem
Zach Cregger ditches the video-game sludge for a lighter, loopier take on the horror franchise.
Variety · 1m
Closing Night: Sisters clash over secrets
Sarah Paulson and Naomi Watts ignite as estranged sisters forced to confront decades of rage in Cody Fern's darkly comic melodrama.
Variety · 1m
Resident Evil is a fleet, entertaining reboot
Zach Cregger brings comedy chops to a video game adaptation that's funny, scary, and surprisingly satisfying.
TIME · 1m
Resident Evil finally nails the video game movie
Director Zach Cregger's fresh take on the flagging franchise proves that games can translate to film when you stop trying to be faithful.
Ars Technica · 2m
Jonathan Majors in Islamophobic thriller sequel
Kyle Rankin's 'Run Hide Fight: Infidels' is more trolling than filmmaking, distributed by The Daily Wire.
Variety · 1m
AI's Odyssey disaster shows why humans matter
A 2.5-hour AI-generated film proves the technology isn't ready for storytelling.
The Verge · 2m
'Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!' review: A feel-good movie about grief
This comedy-drama captures how grief brings tears and odd laughter, sometimes at the same time.
Mashable · 1m
Miike's 'Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo' falls flat
Takashi Miike's remake of the neo-noir classic can't get its story off the ground.
Variety · 1m · 5 views
Margaret Qualley leads a glossy grief journey
Variety finds Rachel Morrison’s pandemic grief drama sincere and pretty, but too polished to cut deep.
Variety · 1m
The pizza bomber heist gets a black comedy
Courteney Cox turns America's strangest bank robbery into a pitch black comedy with Patricia Arquette and David Harbour.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Rather die from Hamlet than AIDS
Andrew Scott plays a dying actor who chooses the stage over safety, in a film about living, not dying.
Mashable · 2m · 5 views
Alex Gibney's Musk doc runs four hours
A thorough, well-argued takedown of Elon Musk that may never reach the people it was built for.
The Verge · 1m
Good intentions can't save a clichéd film
Kim Bartley's first narrative feature means well, but Lemonade runs on autopilot from the first frame.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
A play that won everything, a film that misses
Cynthia Erivo plays a barrister whose faith in the law collapses after she is raped, and the film still falls flat.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Wayne Wang's mad old man turns dull
A perverse Tanizaki novel about lust, age and decay somehow becomes a slog in Wayne Wang's return to features.
Variety · 1m
A mother's apology tour can't carry this film
Gabriel Martins turns a fatal bus crash into a grief drama that keeps losing its own best material.
Variety · 1m
Making Rocky, the underdog movie about an underdog movie
Peter Farrelly's making-of drama turns the scrappy backstory of Rocky into its own underdog win.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Christopher Walken plays an undertaker in a dry spell
A funeral home is going broke because nobody in town will die, so the granddaughter picks up a screwdriver.
Mashable · 1m
Babies asks the question this couple never asked
Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen play a happy LA couple who suddenly realize they never actually decided about kids.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Barbara Kopple takes on the delivery economy
The Oscar-winning documentarian closes her labor trilogy with New York's delivery workers and the courts they're fighting in.
Variety · 1m
The assassin who wants a family
A crime film asks whether a man who kills for a living can build a life worth coming home to.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Shaun the Sheep goes spooky, and it works
Aardman's third Shaun the Sheep feature is the creepiest yet, and still as funny as the first two.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Jay Baruchel drives a jump that never landed
A period comedy about stuntman Ken Carter can't top the 1981 documentary it borrows from.
Variety · 1m
Chris Rock's 'Misty Green' has teeth
Chris Rock returns to directing with a Hollywood story that Variety calls the best in years, carried by Rosalind Eleazar.
Variety · 1m · 5 views
Rosalind Eleazar breaks out in Misty Green
Chris Rock's fourth film as director turns one actress's worst week in Los Angeles into a star-making showcase for its lead.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
The man who had to be Rocky
Peter Farrelly's film retells how a broke actor willed Rocky into existence, and why casting it was a trap.
Variety · 1m
Taron Egerton plays a fuckboi who gets what he wants
Jonathan Schey's debut mashes rom-com, body horror and gender-war satire around a London charmer whose desires get answered far too well.
Variety · 1m
Caleb Hearon's leading man turn will wreck you
A stand-up comic goes home to clean out his dead dad's house, and the jokes stop working.
Mashable · 2m
A boy who wants to be a mermaid
Cartoon Saloon turns a 40-page picture book into a crayon-textured summer in Brooklyn, and it lands.
Mashable · 2m
Chase Infiniti is the real deal
A math prodigy falls for her teaching assistant, and Toronto just met its next movie star.
Variety · 1m · 5 views
NAZA: soldiers explain their own orders
Two of the No Other Land filmmakers put disguised Israeli soldiers on camera to describe the orders they carried out in Gaza.
Variety · 1m · 6 views
Kiefer Sutherland and Al Pacino in a holy mess
A Luc Besson-produced action flick so out of time it feels like a 1990s script pulled from a drawer.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m