Amid the forced gags and disorienting battles are glimpses of an emotional depth which the world's biggest franchise has typically shrunk away from.

Four stellar performances anchor Fran Kranz's first behind-the-camera effort, burned by the embers of grief and the desperate search for closure.

Denis Villeneuve's half-adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic proves itself to be more than a visceral technical accomplishment.

The multinational effort to rescue a Thai youth soccer team from a slowly flooding cave is recounted in astounding detail but with an overcautious hand.

Finally arriving in theaters after pandemic delays, this long-awaited Bond 007 adventure is sometimes stunning but stuffed with ideas which can't find harmony.

An electric pace and unabashedly sentimental core help this symbiote-sprinkled franchise inch closer to its truest, fullest self.

Misguided from the jump, this misfire from the director of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" burdens the audience with attempting to justify its icky construction.

Dan Stevens speaks silky German while contemplating romance and existence as a robotic partner to an excellent Maren Eggert.

Schrader's latest study of a volatile and potentially eruptive personality is potent in its bleakness but doesn't completely have a handle on its own stakes.

Tony Leung is the not-so-secret weapon to the MCU's first origin story since "Captain Marvel," an overlong but exciting and thematically intriguing entry.

Sean King O'Grady's feature debut is a nasty bit of limited-perspective horror dulled by dramatic slightness during a maybe-apocalypse.

As much an inquiry into the legacy of Alvin Ailey as a celebration of his art, Neon's new documentary is often as mesmerizing and graceful as its subject.

The French filmmaker's unpredictable style meshes with the idiosyncratic musical flair of Sparks to create something chaotic, self-referential and moving.

After triumphing at Sundance earlier this year, Siân Heder's winning sophomore feature is on its way to wringing tears out of the eyes of Apple TV+ subscribers.

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's new movie won't entice everyone with its slow and static documentary-like observations. But there's a poetry to its simplicity.

The director of "A Ghost Story" returns with another deliberately constructed meditation on what it takes to endure, starring a never-been-better Dev Patel.

Edson Oda's ambitious feature debut is stuffed with great performances and aesthetic choices, but the catharsis it seeks to provide is more tremor than shockwave.

The deliriously derivative new based-on-a-Disneyland-ride blockbuster is mostly just a reminder of how inventive these big-screen adventures used to be.

The twisty filmmaker rebounds from the mismanaged "Glass" to deliver a beachside allegory as funny and tense as it is poignant.

Wyatt Rockefeller's meditative Mars-set drama works best when it keeps its scope small, its focus tight.