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Die My Love
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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Ramsay shines a light and lets it burn bright for the women who have all, at some point, uttered Grace's words: "I'm right here, you just can't see me."
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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[It] reminds us that there is a possibility to restore the relationships we feel slipping through our fingers if we meet our friends and family where they're at, and allow them to flourish in new ways, as well as giving ourselves the same grace.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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The tale of The Creature is as urgent now as it was when it was first conceived, and thank goodness we have a heart as big as Guillermo del Toro's to breathe new life into it and make the story digestible for a new generation.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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Roofman
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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Cianfrance's Roofman finds the perfect balance between suspense, heart, and pure entertainment, making it one of the most enjoyable watches of 2025.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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Boogie Nights
(1997)
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David Ansen
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One of those breakthrough movies that leaves no doubt you are in the presence of a natural-born filmmaker. Like Spielberg's Sugarland Express or Scorsese's Mean Streets, Anderson's mesmerizing movie announces the arrival of a major career.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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Cooley High
(1975)
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Margo Jefferson
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It is a smart, very affecting movie.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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Babe
(1995)
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Jack Kroll
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Babe is an ancient genre, the beast story updated with animatronics, computerized effects and voice-dubbing by some good actors,...Director Chris Noonan is clearly having fun...Babe is a loining experience.
Posted Jul 30, 2025
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
(1997)
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B.J. Sigesmund
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The main problem, however, is the script, which has a few scares but little smarts.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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Explorers
(1985)
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David Ansen
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The early stuff is aimed at the kids, the payoff can be properly savored only by adults, the finale is limp.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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Superman
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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Much of Gunn's film feels like a sequel, like we needed something before this one to complete the whole picture.
Posted Jul 09, 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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It's fantastical, romantic, awe-inspiring, but most of all... fun.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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Superman II
(1980)
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David Ansen
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Whether bumping into doors as that bumbling preppie Clark Kent, or fielding tossed cars on the streets of Metropolis, Reeve's bashful gallantry is thoroughly winning.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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Return to Oz
(1985)
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Jack Kroll
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Murch's approach has its own somber integrity, which can sink into the pedestrian and rise into the magical.
Posted Jun 20, 2025
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Rollerball
(1975)
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Arthur Cooper
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The ideas of conformism and corporate statism, intended to be Big Themes, would fit cozily on the 21-inch television screen, offending neither sponsors nor fans of Archie Bunker.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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Night Moves
(1975)
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Paul D. Zimmerman
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The movie just vanishes, loose ends and all, in the pit of its own black vision.
Posted May 29, 2025
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The Stepford Wives
(1975)
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Paul D. Zimmerman
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Director Bryan Forbes photographs the victims of Stepford in the most romantic way.
Posted May 02, 2025
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Funny Lady
(1975)
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Charles Michener
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This Chapter II of the Fanny Brice story delivers only second-hand roses left over from Chapter I.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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Sinners
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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Coogler's Sinners is the best film of the year so far.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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Rancho Deluxe
(1975)
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Paul D. Zimmerman
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"Rancho Deluxe" is a quirky, inventive portrait of the no longer wild West.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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At Long Last Love
(1975)
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Charles Michener
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It is an amusing enough remembrance of Hollywood things past, conjured up of an almost ingenuous spirit that, happily, has nothing to do with either nostalgia or camp.
Posted Mar 25, 2025
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Tommy
(1975)
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Charles Michener
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Russell has fused a Kaleidoscope of images that pulsate with the incredible precision of a rock drumbeat in visual counterpoint to the music.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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Opus
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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It's got a lot going for it, both in style and substance, and 103 minutes of genre-defying thrills that refuse to pigeonhole itself, both through style and content, is not to be sniffed at for a feature debut.
Posted Mar 11, 2025
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
(1975)
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Paul D. Zimmerman
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The action is essentially mechanical, since none of the events proceeds from character.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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Picture This
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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Picture This makes the most out of what it is. There are beautiful relationships built between the cast that make it an enjoyable and light watch, even if there's more that could've been done to elevate it just that little bit higher.
Posted Mar 06, 2025
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The Yakuza
(1974)
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Paul D. Zimmerman
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Imagine The Big Sleep shot in the back alleys of Tokyo and you have something of the muddled mood of The Yakuza, a cultural cross-breed that is neither sushi nor Southern fried chicken.
Posted Mar 03, 2025
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The Great Waldo Pepper
(1975)
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Paul D. Zimmerman
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The Great Waldo Pepper lifts off on what appears to be a flight of pure, light-hearted adventure and almost immediately runs into rough weather.
Posted Mar 03, 2025
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975)
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Jack Kroll
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Most of the characters are thinned out... But Forman directs his players superbly, and Louise Fletcher as the nurse turns impassive coolness into a destructive force.
Posted Feb 25, 2025
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Barry Lyndon
(1975)
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Jack Kroll
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Seeking the sources of our alienation in the explosively random energies of the eighteenth century, Kubrick has created an epic of esthetic self-indulgence, beautiful but empty. He needs to come back to earth from the outer spaces of past and future.
Posted Feb 25, 2025
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
(2025)
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Billie Melissa
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy feels like meeting with old friends: warm, cozy, and filled with hysterical laughter.
Posted Feb 14, 2025
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Mufasa: The Lion King
(2024)
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Billie Melissa
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While it's not as unrestricted and original as a filmmaker like Jenkins is capable of, Mufasa: The Lion King has enough woven in there that will serve families this holiday season, even if it may not resonate with all of Jenkins' usual audience.
Posted Dec 17, 2024
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Only Yesterday
(1933)
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Newsweek Staff
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If such absurdities can be passed over, the film is an effective effort to wring tears from the customers.
Posted Apr 23, 2024
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The Mad Miss Manton
(1938)
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Newsweek Staff
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[Barbara Stanwyck] and a posse of bird-witted debutantes have a lot of fun playing bloodhounds in search of a missing corpse and ganging up on a defenseless newspaper editor.
Posted Apr 22, 2024
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The Caine Mutiny
(1954)
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Newsweek Staff
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Bogart plays, on the screen, the scenes that are only talked about in Nolan’s stage trial, and in playing- the more definitive version of Queeg he achieves a remarkably detailed and sensitive performance.
Posted Apr 19, 2024
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The Lavender Hill Mob
(1951)
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Newsweek Staff
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Another of those relaxed, delightful whimsies which the British seem to be able to compound out of a slightly off-beat idea, a true eye for character, and a liberal lacing of the national humor.
Posted Apr 18, 2024
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White Heat
(1949)
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Newsweek Staff
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It wasn’t quite so likely that White Heat would turn out to be as surcharged with excitement as the gangster films of the early ’30s and that Cagney’s realization of a psychopathic killer would surpass in realism and intensity anything he has ever done.
Posted Apr 15, 2024
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
(1976)
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Janet Maslin
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This is nothing if not a crowd-pleaser, thanks to a witty if scrambled screenplay.
Posted Apr 11, 2024
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Dog Day Afternoon
(1975)
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Jack Kroll
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Electric but erratic...
Posted Apr 07, 2024
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Spaceballs
(1987)
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David Ansen
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If Spaceballs lurches erratically from gut laugh to groaner, perhaps it’s because the Star Wars movies aren’t the most fertile soil for a feature-length sendup... [Still,] when Spaceballs connects, you remember why Brooks was once comedy’s MVP.
Posted Apr 04, 2024
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The Big Heat
(1953)
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Newsweek Staff
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Most of the film’s characterizations are sensibly written and played, and there is a highly effective performance by Gloria Grahame as a gangster’s moll who doesn’t deserve the terrible things that happen to her.
Posted Mar 28, 2024
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National Velvet
(1944)
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Newsweek Staff
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All the performances are right, and Rooney, playing with rare restraint, sensibly allows young Miss Taylor to steal the picture.
Posted Mar 26, 2024
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The Searchers
(1956)
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Newsweek Staff
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Despite scene after scene of frustrated pursuit... Ford never ignores the great cinematic necessity, pace.
Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Westward the Women
(1951)
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Newsweek Staff
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It is no distortion of history to demonstrate that the American woman comes through with a magnificent display of resourcefulness and courage, but there isn't much leeway in all this action for the gentler art of acting.
Posted Mar 02, 2024
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Love and Death
(1975)
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Paul D. Zimmerman
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It sparkles with an unremitting succession of terrific moments, if not the soaring, sustained stretches of Sleeper.
Posted Jan 19, 2024
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Alien
(1979)
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Jack Kroll
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Alien will scare the peanuts right out of your M&M's. It was about time someone made a science-fiction thriller that thrills... and just boils everything down to the pure, ravishingly vulgar essence of fright.
Posted Nov 16, 2023
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The Last Picture Show
(1971)
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Paul D. Zimmerman
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The Last Picture Show is a masterpiece. It is not merely the best American movie of a rather dreary year; it is the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.
Posted Oct 26, 2023
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Raging Bull
(1980)
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Jack Kroll
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There is appalling violence in Raging Bull, but as in Greek tragedy the violence is the thunderbolt of shock of a total apprehension of the humanity of its characters.
Posted Oct 11, 2023
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Taxi Driver
(1976)
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Jack Kroll
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Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Chapman create a funky, overripe New York that's like a nightmare Travis can never stop dreaming... But first and last Taxi Driver belongs to Robert De Niro, the most remarkable young actor of the American screen.
Posted Oct 06, 2023
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Traffic
(2000)
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David Ansen
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Traffic's engines are already revved when it starts, with a drug bust in the Mexican desert, and it careers through its multiple stories with a documentary-style urgency that never lets up.
Posted Sep 07, 2023
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Moscow on the Hudson
(1984)
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David Ansen
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Mazursky here barely seems to be on a first name basis with his characters. They're mere ideas to him, which makes his fulsome celebration of their diverse humanity disingenuous.
Posted Aug 22, 2023
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The Color Purple
(1985)
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David Ansen
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Ultimately, it’s hard not to be moved by Spielberg’s ‘Color Purple and its formidable cast. But it’s not that simple: Spielberg’s limitations as well as his brilliance are on full display.
Posted May 31, 2023
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