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Searchlight Pictures A Romantic Comedy You Never Want to End
The gleefully inventive Rye Lane is full of good chemistry and good vibes.
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Paramount Pictures Dungeons & Dragons and the Return of the Sincere Blockbuster
Finally, a fantasy film that’s not embarrassed of itself.
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Apple TV+ Tetris Doesn’t Stack Up
How can a film based on a game about perfectly interlocking pieces be so messy?
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Lionsgate John Wick and the Tragedy of the Aimless Assassin
The hit man faces off with his scariest foe yet: his own weariness.
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Kevin Winter / Getty The Most Surprising Performance of the Oscars
Lady Gaga’s minimalist rendition of “Hold My Hand” stood out even in a night of unpredictable musical moments.
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Patrick T. Fallon / AFP / Getty The Oscars Got This One Right
Everything Everywhere All at Once got its fairy-tale ending.
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Kevin Winter / Getty ‘This Is the American Dream’
Ke Huy Quan’s and Jamie Lee Curtis’s affecting Oscars speeches underscored just how much each actor deserved a happy ending.
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Paramount Pictures Is Scream Losing Its Voice?
The satirical horror franchise is becoming as bloated as its source material.
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Christopher Polk / Getty Here’s Who Will Win at the 2023 Oscars
… and also who should win.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Sources: ABC / … The Long Afterlife of Awards-Show Speeches
Oscars speeches are immortalized online, and I can’t stop watching them.
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Netflix The Most Overrated Movie of This Oscars Season
All Quiet on the Western Front falls into a classic war-film trap: all flash and hardly any feeling.
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Eli Ade /MGM Creed III and the Power of a Worthy Opponent
Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut gives new energy to old sports-movie formulas.
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Benjamin McMahon / Contour by Getty The Movie That Helped Kazuo Ishiguro Make Sense of the World
The Nobel Prize–winning author’s work has long had a symbiotic relationship with cinema. His Oscar-nominated film, Living, is the logical next step.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic 20 Biopics That Are Actually Worth Watching
Most true-story films are functional to a fault. These ones break the mold.
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Christopher Anderson / Magnum Jenny Slate Wants to Know What You’re Thinking About Her Face
The actor and comedian on aging in Hollywood, her recurring nightmare, and the origins of her sweet sense of humor
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Universal Pictures Cocaine Bear Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Elizabeth Banks has promised her viewers no more than a bear on drugs, and a bear on drugs is what they get.
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20th Century Fox Film / Everett Why Rewatching Titanic Is Different Now
Twenty-five years ago, the movie turned tragedy into romance. Today, that alchemy takes on a darker absurdity.
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Parrish Lewis / Netflix The Death of the Sex Scene
What we lose when intimacy gets added in postproduction.
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Sony Pictures Classics A Low-Budget Character Drama With Maximalist Thrills
Return to Seoul is a story of adoption and belonging that resists easy sentimentality.
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Bleecker Street A Sensitive Movie About a Literary Oddity
A new film about Emily Brontë offers a fresh, provocative look at the misunderstood Wuthering Heights author.
