Jennifer Lawrence stars as mother in director Darren Aronofsky's new film
Review by Paige Taylor
I've never been able to explain the intimate connection a woman has to her home, and mother! did an incredible job of illustrating that connection to me.
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Bill Skarsgård plays Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Andrés Muschietti's new adaptation of It
Review by Andrew Swafford
Mischietti’s film undoubtedly improves upon the last iteration in countless ways, but its inherited flaws run deep.
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Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Homecoming
Review by Nadine Smith
Like the Wolverine of Logan, the Spider-Man of Spider-Man: Homecoming has been reconfigured as the quintessential Gig Economy superhero, refashioned from the class-conscious, check-to-check freelancer of Spider-Man 2, who resisted the crushing heel of capitalism through his disguised direct actions.
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Miami Man (Jason Momoa) and Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) start to fall for each other in Ana Lily Amirpour's cannibal love story The Bad Batch.
Review by Jessica Carr
Whether you are a huge fan of Ana Lily Amirpour’s work or not, it’s hard to describe The Bad Batch as an ordinary movie experience.
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Best friends, Okja and Mija (Seo-Hyeon Ahn, explore the mountains of South Korea in Bong Joon-ho's thought-provoking film Okja.
Review by Jessica Carr
In a film about greed, Bong Joon-ho still allows some of his characters to have redemptive qualities that help their humanity shine through.
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Zoë Kravitz, Ilana Glazer, Scarlett Johansson, and Jillian Bell (and Kate McKinnon, back there) form the ensemble that drives director Lucia Aniello's Rough Night
Review by Andrew Swafford
As far as ensembles go, Rough Night has a good one: Jillian Bell, Zoë Kravitz, Ilana Glazer, and Kate McKinnon all end up outshining Johansson, who plays it straight against their farcical spectrum. And it’s not just that they’re funnier than Johansson, but they’re more important by design.
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Kevin Harrison Jr. stars in director Trey Edward Shults's It Comes At Night
Review by Andrew Swafford
I am here to tell you, reader, that not only is It Comes at Night not a horror movie, it is hardly a movie. It is a non-movie. It is three dogs on each other’s shoulders in a trenchcoat instead of a movie.
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Gal Gadot stars in director Patty Jenkins film Wonder Woman
Review by Paige Taylor
Have you ever sat in a theater full of people, weeping with unrestrained joy, because a superhero was just that badass? This girl has.
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Javier Bardem stars in the fifth installment in Disney's Pirates of the Carribean franchise
Review by Jordan Collier
Dead Men Tell No Tales is a baby step in the right direction, but at this point the series might be sunk.
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Nick Robinson and Amandla Stenberg have an undeniable chemistry in the charming YA adaptation Everything, Everything directed by Stella Meghie.
Review by Jessica Carr
It’s OKAY to let yourself enjoy a charming YA romance, especially if it means women like Amandla Stenberg get more lead roles.
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Michalina Olszanska stars as one of the mermaids in Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Lure.
Review by Lydia Creech
David Ehrlich from IndieWire called it “The Best Goth Musical About Man-Eating Mermaids Ever Made” in his review, and maybe that tagline is enough to sell you (it sold me). If not, uhm, what’s wrong with you?
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Brie Larson stars in director Ben Wheatley's Free Fire
Review by Lydia Creech
Ben Wheatley populates his films with aggressively shitty, stupid people, then puts them in hermetically sealed environments and lets them be aggressively shitty and stupid to each other until there’s only one left standing. I am fine with this.
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Garance Marillier stars in the cannibal coming-of-age thriller Raw, the debut film for French director Julia Ducournau.
Makoto Shinkai's Your Name broke the anime box office record previously set by Spirited Away
Review by Andrew Swafford
Your Name. is doing the unthinkable: finding extraordinary success solely due to its quality as a good story, expertly told by a visionary filmmaker. Am I dreaming?
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Aaron Poole stars in The Void, a new horror film by directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski
Review by Jordan Collier
The Void is another horror film marketed as a throwback to the horror golden age of the 80s, when the genre wasn't afraid to be absolutely off-the-wall batshit crazy whether in idea or execution. It’s not going to be remembered for its characters or its plot, but I have a hard time believing it ever would have been.
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Zoey Deutch stars in director Ry Russo-Young's Before I Fall
Review by Andrew Swafford
Before I Fall stylishly explores the repetitive nature of routine adolescent life in a way that isn’t being appreciated enough.
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Annette Bennin, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig star in director Mike Mills's 20th Century Women
Review by Lydia Creech
The three women at the heart of 20th Century Women relatable and flawed and funny and beautiful, and, frankly, aspirational.
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Sandra Hüller stars in director Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann
Review by Jessica Carr
With Toni Erdmann, German writer/director Maren Ade creates a film that explores father-daughter relationships, the meaning of life and depression all while creating a comedic experience that had me laughing until my sides ached.
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Samuel Jackson reads the words of James Baldwin (above) in director Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro
Review by Lydia Creech
I can’t stress enough how important it is that other voices be heard and listened to, especially in today’s political climate. The effect of hearing Baldwin speak is quite different from the talking head documentary styles of 13th and OJ; I Am Not Your Negro feels more lyrical and associative.
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Riccardo Scamarcio and Ruby Rose costar beside Keanu Reeves in director Chad Stahelski’s John Wick: Chapter 2
Review by Andrew Swafford
Can we talk about violence in the John Wick series? Seriously, can we? Only three years old, this franchise has already become a strange sacred cow for cinephiles who dig genre fiction. Yes, these movies are balletic and immaculately captured on film, but they’re also fascinating--if imperfect--from just about every other angle.
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