Mindy Kaling (l) and Emma Thompson (r) in a scene from Nisha Ganatra’s Late Night
“There’s something missing that keeps everything from coming together.”
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Late Night — Review
2.5 Stars
Long Shot — Review
Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron in a scene from Jonathan Levine’s Long Shot
“This is always a uniformly entertaining film, but when it shows that it can reach so much higher than that, it’s hard not to be left wanting when those moments seem so relatively unrepresentative.”
Alita: Battle Angel — Review
Rocketman — Review
Taron Egerton in a scene from Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman
“A film relatively inventive within the boundaries that it has set, though let down by the limited ground it covers in ways alternately engaging and conventional.”
Greta — Review
Under the Silver Lake — Review
Andrew Garfield in a scene from David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
“A clarified destination or resolution remains perpetually elusive.”
The Hole in the Ground – Review
Seána Kerslake in a scene from Lee Cronin’s The Hole in the Ground
Someone Great — Review
Left to right: DeWanda Wise, Gina Rodriguez, and Brittany Snow in a scene from Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s Someone Great
“We understand the characters’ bonds, we believe in them, and though the film is light in tone and weak in structure, we can track their growth.”
Christopher Robin — Review
Ewan McGregor returns to the Hundred Acre Wood in a scene from Marc Forster’s Christopher Robin
“What’s the value of espousing the creative joy that can be found in sitting back and relaxing if the movie that contains those messages feels so insipid on the whole?”
Free Solo — Review
A vertigo emergency of a scene from Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Free Solo
