Ambition gets the best of an off-day Luca Guadagnino in his revisionist Suspiria, a leaden reimagining of Dario Argento’s phantasmagoric 1977 shocker about a witches’ coven at a prestigious German dance academy and the American student who discovers its secret. The story goes that…
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A tale as old as time—or at least Hollywood—receives an electrifying new update in Bradley Cooper’s rousing A Star is Born, as vividly rendered, romantic and affecting a Hollywood picture as we’ve seen in ages. It may also be the best version of a…
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Handsome, historical, breezily progressive and featuring a radiant Keira Knightley, Colette is a meditation of the spirit of an artist—here a turn of the 20th century proto-feminist and erotic fiction novelist—out of her time. In a period picture with a notable contemporary relevance, Knightley…
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Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, an unexpected good time sequel, takes some time to settle into—the songs aren’t quite as good as the first go-round and there’s patent silliness in nearly every frame—but the anything-to-please eagerness, informing every production number, one-liner and candy…
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Debra Granik’s heartbreaker Leave No Trace is an unorthodox father-daughter story about family, adolescence and community, emotionally potent all the way and with a lot of compassion for the values of rural folks and those who choose to live off-the-grid. It is also a…
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A terrific Vera Farmiga and Christopher Plummer drive the family road movie Boundaries, about a hard-won reconciliation between a father and daughter who, try as they might, have never been able to make their relationship work. Written and directed by Shana Feste, it’s a…
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Hereditary, about a troubled family coming apart after a tragedy leads to an intrusion of the supernatural, is among the best, and rarest, kinds of scary movies, both a thoroughly observed examination of personal and human dynamics and diabolical descent into a place so…
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