Film Reviews

Beautiful and immersive, The Wild Robot is an animated dream machine

Kate Winslet clicks, but everything else in the photojournalism biopic Lee loses focus

Apocalypse wow: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a messy masterpiece of movie mania

My Old Ass telegraphs big ideas in a moving coming-of-age story

Middle-of-the-pack Apple TV+ caper Wolfs leaves George Clooney and Brad Pitt hungry for more

Ay yi yi, robot: Transformers One is more than a few nuts and bolts shy of a finely tuned machine

Post-apocalyptic horror Never Let Go does its best work in service of a supernatural reckoning

Joseph Kahn’s eye-popping Ick is the horror-comedy Hollywood doesn’t realize it so desperately needs

Bloody Hollywood satire The Substance is the best kind of unhinged nightmare

Speak No Evil relies on slasher tropes to create a spectacle

Netflix’s Rebel Ridge is a high-impact blast of a thriller that should make Aaron Pierre a star

Beetlejuice sequel feels like a blend of a dozen scripts that never escaped Development Hell

Canadian comedy Deaner ‘89 is the heavy-metal gift that keeps on give’r!-ing

Moviegoers should just say ‘no’ to hagiographic Reagan biopic starring Dennis Quaid

Soulless remake of The Crow will make you want to fly far away

Master Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice returns after three-decade absence with singular drama Close Your Eyes

Grimy thriller Strange Darling puts the ‘ick’ in sick

Intense and awkward Jewish comedy Between the Temples is a mitzvah of a movie

Zoë Kravitz bucks the nepo-baby reputation with ambitious cancel-culture-skewering thriller Blink Twice

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story follows trailblazing soul singer who gave up career to live her truth

Alien: Romulus will make you retch, for better and for worse

A committed Blake Lively almost makes Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us work — almost

Epic new Olympic thriller Balestra puts Canadian director Nicole Dorsey on pathway to podium

Not even as trusted a guardian as Cate Blanchett can save Borderlands’ glum galaxy

Delicately infuriating documentary Sugarcane digs deep into pain of Canada’s residential school system

An unhinged Dan Stevens nearly saves the too-kooky thriller Cuckoo

Riotous Irish hip-hop comedy Kneecap is energetic enough to fuel a revolution

Heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age film Didi proves there’s no such thing as wasted youth

Colman Domingo soars beyond walls real and metaphorical in fantastic prison drama Sing Sing

Only hard-core Marvel fans will survive Deadpool & Wolverine’s multiverse of mind-numbing madness

Uninspired disaster flick Twisters is gone with the wind

Keep the Champagne on ice: Widow Clicquot is a flat historical drama fit to be corked

National Anthem is a rewarding ride into queer cowboy culture

Drab and drippy romcom Fly Me to the Moon proves that in space, no one can hear you sigh

Silence of the hams: Nicolas Cage sparks Satanic panic in nifty but overhyped FBI thriller Longlegs

Icelandic drama Touch proves that the COVID-cinema genre needs to be locked down