The film, focusing on a young Donald's relationship with scorched-earth attorney Roy Cohn, uses a grim brush to paint the billionaire's origin story.

Brady Corbet's Academy Awards contender is dazzling, a bit disorienting and definitive in its ambition.

It's somewhat surprising we went this long without Nic Cage slipping into Dracula's cowl. It wasn't entirely worth it.

At just 95 minutes, the family-friendly affair doesn't overstay its welcome. But it does have unfulfilled potential.

Suspense and catharsis are mined from the same place in Jeffrey Brown's plodding horror/drama.

Music video veteran Kristian Mercado subverts lost-among-the-stars tropes with his "When Harry Met Sally"-in-space SXSW highlight.

Eva Longoria's narrative directorial debut breezily tells a debunked story of Mexican-American ingenuity, and misses an opportunity in the process.

Caroline Fioratti's drama brushes with interesting ideas but is, maybe intentionally, as directionless as its ensemble.

The Del Rio Mustangs made history and broke barriers when they won the state title in 1957. Julio Quintana gives their story a sleek, effective conviction.

Woody Harrelson stars as a downtrodden coach assigned to a Special Olympics team in a comedy that doesn't get its priorities straight.

The 31st Marvel adventure balloons the scale and introduces a conqueror. But the effort is miniscule.

As her documentary “Stories We Tell” taught and this movie’s exemplary ensemble shows, Sarah Polley has an eye for pinpointing deeper layers of consequence.

Florian Zeller's follow-up to his Oscar-winning "The Father" lacks the finesse, empathy and gusto of his debut.

"Parasite" star Song Kang-ho stars as a child trafficker in a stirring new South Korea-set drama that's more uplifting than its premise suggests.

"Hostiles" director Scott Cooper swings from the wild west to the wintry east, where occult rituals and violence awaits. It's intriguing, until it isn't.

There's ambition in Noah Baumbach's colorful and catastrophic ode to the American family, but not much else.

Vicky Krieps turns in her most impressive effort since "Phantom Thread" as a sovereign out to save herself.

The director of "Birdman" and "The Revenant" returns to his native Mexico to confront personal and national legacies.

Despite ravishing atmosphere, this lackluster effort grasps for profundity but falls perilously short.

James Cameron's fantastical world is wider, wetter and a touch more profound in this long-anticipated sequel to the 2009 juggernaut.