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Parallel Tales (2026) 19% EDIT “No one is saying that Farhadi has to stick to his familiar and often starkly artful mode of neorealist drama. But Parallel Tales, it’s my grim duty to report, is a meandering and rather amorphous mess. ” – Variety May 14, 2026 Full Review Fatherland (2026) 95% EDIT “The film has been made in a spirit of nearly fetishistic meticulousness; it’s as subtle as a fine wine. Yet Fatherland, as an experience, is so steeped in ideas that in the end it’s more heady than haunting.” – Variety May 14, 2026 Full Review The Electric Kiss (2026) 59% EDIT “The Electric Kiss is so overcalculated, so stuffy and labored, so infatuated with its own conceits that I suspect it will end up satisfying virtually no one.” – Variety May 12, 2026 Full Review Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026) 93% EDIT ““Hit Me Hard and Soft” is a concert film that doesn’t look and feel like other concert films. It’s a true experience, because of a combination of the show itself and the way that Cameron has filmed it.” – Variety May 7, 2026 Full Review Mortal Kombat II (2026) 65% EDIT “Mortal Kombat II, a sequel to the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot, is still an old-school video-game trash extravaganza: all sound and fury and flying bodies and jargony world-building, propped up by a sludgy excuse for a story. ” – Variety May 6, 2026 Full Review Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC (2026) EDIT “A sizzling concert doc that captures the two benefit shows that John Lennon led at Madison Square Garden on August 30, 1972. ” – Variety May 1, 2026 Full Review Swapped (2026) 67% EDIT “When the characters meet Boogle, a purple-blue grouper-like fish with a luxurious multicolored seaweed back, the character, voiced by Tracy Morgan, gives the film a spark.” – Variety May 1, 2026 Full Review The Last Critic (2026) EDIT ““The Last Critic” is a portrait of a venerable voice, but mostly it’s a testament to everything a great critic is: a priest, a fan, an assassin, an aesthete, a merciless truth-teller, and a vessel of love.” – Variety Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Deep Water (2026) 71% EDIT “As a director, he has a sixth sense for how to reduce actors to walking slabs of pulp. Yet there’s no denying that Renny Harlin, in his utilitarian action-hack way, has some chops. ” – Variety Apr 27, 2026 Full Review Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (2025) 100% EDIT “A lively, knife-sharp, impeccably researched and reported documentary that answers every conceivable question you’ve ever had about crypto, and does so in a way that’s brisk and funny and illuminating rather than intimidating. ” – Variety Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% EDIT “Simply put, this is not a movie about Michael Jackson’s dark side. Yet the surprise of “Michael” is how well it plays, and what an engrossing middle-of-the-road biopic it is. ” – Variety Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Legend (1985) 33% EDIT “At a scant 90 minutes, Legend stands as a barely coherent, extravagantly silly fantasy; were it half an hour longer, it probably would be a fully coherent extravagantly silly fantasy.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Lorne (2026) 71% EDIT “If you’re a “Saturday Night Live” fan, you’re not going to want to miss “Lorne,” since it’s a puckishly delightful and revealing movie.” – Variety Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Thrash (2026) 42% EDIT “This is a Netflix and Chomp movie, just 80 minutes long (if you don’t count the closing credits), and the compact run time does more than keep “Thrash” from wearing out its welcome.” – Variety Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Mile End Kicks (2025) 88% EDIT “Mile End Kicks wants to mirror the haphazard freedom of a young woman out on her own... To that end, the writer-director, Chandler Levack, establishes an agreeably slapdash attitude of hedonistic adventure.” – Variety Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Marc by Sofia (2025) 74% EDIT “I went into the movie eager to see how [Coppola] might dress up the by-now traditional template of a fashion documentary. "Marc by Sofia,” however, turns out to be a surprisingly standard, not-all-that-enthralling entry in the genre. ” – Variety Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 71% EDIT “This is the David Lowery-est David Lowery movie ever made. Which is to say that by the end of it, you may be scratching your head to the point of wanting your money back.” – Variety Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% EDIT “A halfway clever retro slasher movie that, as directed and co-written by Daniel Goldhaber, actually has something on its mind.” – Variety Apr 6, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 42% EDIT “Not a single one of these characters, including Mario and Luigi, occupies the center of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.” And that’s because the movie has no center.” – Variety Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% EDIT “You’ve got to say this much for Kristoffer Borgli: In “The Drama” he’s an original, like the bastard stepchild of Dogme 95 and “Wedding Crashers.”” – Variety Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) 90% EDIT “A scary, dizzying and essential documentary. If you have any interest in artificial intelligence (which is to say: the future), you should go out and see it right now. ” – Variety Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Tow (2025) 77% EDIT ““Tow” is a minor indie that doesn’t always make the right moves, but Byrne seizes her character and turns the question of whether you like her or not into the film’s dramatic motor.” – Variety Mar 21, 2026 Full Review The Howling (1981) 76% EDIT “If it's too clever for its own good, the movie is also full of entertaining ideas and special effects, and a lunatic wit seems to bubble up every time there's a lull in the action.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Forbidden Fruits (2026) 75% EDIT “That, in fact, is what makes the film original — its perception that for these girls, progressive anger is now inseparable from fashion. ” – Variety Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Power Ballad (2026) 87% EDIT “What makes “Power Ballad” a terrific film is how much we believe this story. Rudd makes Rick a fully felt presence, a gifted musician with a dad-rock swagger.” – Variety Mar 16, 2026 Full Review
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