‘In My Mother’s Skin‘ Review: Folk-Horror Feast Evokes ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ in the Best of Ways
Gory, glittery and irresistibly bleak, In My Mother’s Skin represents a stylish, ripe contribution to the folk-horror canon. Not unlike...
Movie Reviews
‘Invisible Beauty’ Review: A Trailblazing Model Combats Industry Racism in Thoughtful Doc Self-Portrait
In November 1973, the fashion world gathered at the Palace of Versailles, an emblem of French opulence, for a fundraiser...
‘Run Rabbit Run’ Review: Sarah Snook in a Maternal Horror Flick Whose Shivers Are Only Skin-Deep
Following in the footsteps of The Babadook and Hereditary, Run Rabbit Run adds a layer of generational analysis to horror...
‘The Stroll’ Review: A Story of Survival, Sisterhood and Erasure Told by the Trans Women of Color Who Lived It
There’s an eyebrow-raising moment in The Stroll — a simultaneously celebratory and elegiac documentary for HBO about the transgender sex...
The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2023
Poet-turned-filmmaker Raven Jackson uses elegantly composed vignettes, minimal dialogue and an immersive style to explore the life of a Black...
‘Victim/Suspect’ Review: A Sobering Documentary Exposes the Ways Many Sexual Assault Accusers Are Railroaded
Sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes in the United States, and it’s rare for a perpetrator to...
‘Plan C’ Review: Sensitive Doc Depicts Warriors for a Women’s Right to Choose
Documentary-maker Tracy Droz Tragos’ timely, rousing latest feature Plan C represents a de facto sequel to her earlier work, 2016’s...
‘Radical’ Review: Eugenio Derbez Plays an Unorthodox Teacher in a Standard but Appealing Crowd-Pleaser
From To Sir, With Love through Stand and Deliver and Dangerous Minds, inspirational dramas about dedicated educators overcoming the apathy...
‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: A Searching Portrait of the Celebrated Poet
In the opening scene of Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s searching documentary Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, the...
‘Fairyland’ Review: Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy Negotiate Spiky Father-Daughter Ties in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco
Told from the perspective of a young girl raised by her single gay father to be a woman who is...
