‘The Royal Hotel’ Review: Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick in Kitty Green’s Bruising Outback Drama
Two American backpackers sign on as temporary workers at a remote Australian pub in a narrative feature inspired by a documentary.
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‘Fingernails’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed Quietly Ignite a Low-Tech Sci-Fi Exploration of Romantic Love
Jeremy Allen White and Luke Wilson also star in the English-language debut of Christos Nikou, the Athens-born director of ‘Apples.’
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‘Food, Inc. 2’ Review: A Wake-Up Call That Strikes a Thoughtful Balance Between the Heartening and the Dire
Following up on the 2008 documentary, part two tracks promising breakthroughs and deepening problems in American agriculture and the multinational food industry.
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‘The Bikeriders’ Review: Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy Stir the Surface of Jeff Nichols’ Gorgeous, Violent Love Letter to Outsiders
Inspired by a work of New Journalism about a 1960s motorcycle club, the Chicago-set drama — co-starring Austin Butler and Mike Faist — combines material from that book with a fictional narrative.
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‘Rustin’ Review: Colman Domingo Brings an Underappreciated Civil Rights Hero to Passionate Life in George C. Wolfe’s Rousing Feature
In his first big-screen lead role, the actor portrays the chief architect of the historic 1963 March on Washington, a gay man who was well ahead of his time in being out and proud.
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‘Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity’ Review: Amazon’s Docuseries Aims Beyond Formula to Hit the High Notes
The three-part portrait explores the life and music of the revered and influential saxophonist, who died in March.
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‘The Beautiful Summer’ Review: An Uneven but Sensuous and Sensitive Coming-of-Age Drama
Set in 1938 Turin, Laura Luchetti’s adaptation of a novel by Cesare Pavese — premiering at the Locarno Film Festival — centers on a young woman’s sexual awakening.
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‘The Unknown Country’ Review: Lily Gladstone Is the Radiant Center of a Lyrical Hybrid Drama
The ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ star plays a young woman reconnecting with her Oglala Lakota relatives in a feature that weaves documentary elements into its road-trip narrative.
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Critic’s Notebook: A Generation’s Chords of Celebration, Elegy and Reckoning Resound in Two New Brit-Rock Docs
'Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)' and 'Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd' join a vibrant crop of recent documentaries that illuminate the epochal music scenes of the ’60s and ’70s.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best Films of 2023 So Far
THR’s reviewers choose faves from the first half of the year, including a Michelle Williams-Kelly Reichardt collab, Miles Morales’ latest adventure and an aching love-triangle drama.
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‘Richland’ Review: A Sensitive Portrait of the American Dream and the Fallout of a Nuclear Legacy
Irene Lusztig’s documentary, which premiered at Tribeca, spends time with the residents of Richland, Washington, a small town that played a big role in the Manhattan Project.
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‘Maggie Moore(s)’ Review: Jon Hamm and Tina Fey in a Messy Small-Town Crime Comedy
Two women with the same name are murdered within days of each other in John Slattery’s second feature as a director, premiering at Tribeca.
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