In addition to the Academy Award nominees our chief film critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott would name, five other movie-loving New York Times staffers weighed in with their selections for three...
Read moreRoughly 400 costumed cast members and some 400 crew members. Dozens of makeup artists and 100 wigs. In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the production team was tasked with memorializing not only the...
Read moreA state-of-the-art robot doll becomes a girl’s best friend, and dangerously more, in this over-the-top horror film.
Read moreA state-of-the-art robot doll becomes a girl’s best friend, and dangerously more, in this over-the-top horror film.
Read moreAt a Tribeca Film Festival party in 2018, Raúl Castillo met the filmmaker Elegance Bratton and gave him his number. But he never responded to Bratton’s subsequent texts.“I spread myself a little...
Read moreAs with their previous projects, the directors Gédéon and Jules Naudet (“9/11,” “November 13: Attack on Paris”) have crafted a documentary that revolves around a national tragedy. “January 6th,” about the U.S....
Read moreNicolas Cage phones it in as a deadly, taciturn gunslinger in this middling western.
Read moreIn “Candy Land,” a group of truck-stop sex workers, or “lot lizards,” assembles daily by a gas-station bench, scarfing down Twinkies and Coca-Cola between sexual romps in the back seat or the...
Read moreInside a car at the edge of a peach orchard, three children shoot finger-pistols at imagined aliens, when a crane rumbles into view, interrupting their extraterrestrial fantasies with earthly terrors. In “Alcarràs,”...
Read moreThe Brazilian director Gabriel Martins shot his tender-eyed family drama “Mars One” in 2018, shortly after the election of Jair Bolsonaro. Martins intended to hold up the billion-dollar space colonization project as...
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