Vanity Fair

Joy Press Vanity Fair Aug 27, 2026 Melania, Brett Ratner’s Melania Trump movie, is a purportedly serious film that plays like a mockumentary. If you were making a movie that parodied the current first lady of the United States, I’m not sure what you’d do differently. Go to Full Review Melania (2026) 9% - -

Julie Miller Vanity Fair May 6, 2026 As evidenced by the standing ovation and the excited chatter from viewers leaving the theater, [Gaga] was not the only person overcome by the documentary—a powerful, thrilling portal into the life of one of the world's most talented pop stars. Go to Full Review Gaga: Five Foot Two (2017) 73% 80%

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jul 30, 2025 At its best, this new Naked Gun is a dumb, loopy delight, a return to the kind of comedy that was woefully taken for granted in its heyday and now barely exists at all. Go to Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 88% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jul 29, 2025 It’s yet another middling entry in the post-Endgame tradition, a film that doesn’t launch the franchise headlong at the future so much as it glumly drags us toward it. Go to Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jul 10, 2025 It’s a shrewdly balanced film, a mix of flippant merriment and real dramatic stakes. Gunn would have a much harder time selling his new approach had he not cast smartly. Fortunately, he’s found an appealing Kal-El/Clark in TV actor David Corenswet. Go to Full Review Superman (2025) 83% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jun 30, 2025 There are worse exercises in IP-extension out there in the marketplace. But it is hard to imagine what possible basis there could be for an eighth Jurassic film. Go to Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jun 25, 2025 Brokeback’s high emotion occasionally borders on the melodrama of classic Hollywood. There is plenty of aching nuance, but the film is, for the most part, generous and entirely legible in its pathology. Go to Full Review Brokeback Mountain (2005) 88% 82%

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jun 18, 2025 Grim and strange, 28 Years Later finds Boyle once again following the irregular rhythms of his brain. Go to Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jun 17, 2025 Pixar has begun doing what it once seemed it never would: repeating itself. Go to Full Review Elio (2025) 83% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jun 11, 2025 Materialists is successfully seductive, eventually revealing a few potential deal-breakers but otherwise proving an engaging date. I wanted to fall in love, as I had with Past Lives. But a diverting, heady fling will do too. Go to Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jun 5, 2025 One happily trots along with Ballerina as it ventures into absurdity. Its silliness is, at least, compellingly rendered. It helps immensely that de Armas is such a limber, confident action performer. Go to Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair Jun 4, 2025 It’s a lumpy, eclectic film, one grasping for deep meaning but never quite reaching it. Flanagan’s ambition fails him here, as it sometimes does in his ornately crafted Netflix shows. Go to Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair May 29, 2025 As Saturday night entertainment, it falls short. And it’s not as informative as a journalistic long read. But at least it’s something, the slightest of pushes back against the people trying so offhandedly to grind us into soylent. Go to Full Review Mountainhead (2025) 73% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair May 21, 2025 Trier has once again crafted a film that is graceful and limber, thoughtful and surprising. Sentimental Value doesn’t land with the same wallop as "Worst Person", but it is plenty affecting in its own insightful, poignant way. Go to Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair May 21, 2025 At times, Hermanus’s style is effective, selling us on the film’s lonely, years-spanning heartsickness. But too often the film’s muted emotion feels more gimmicky than credible to Lionel and David’s circumstances. Go to Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 69% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair May 20, 2025 Highest 2 Lowest finds Lee both defiant of his age and proud of it, seizing our attention with the friendly insistence of someone with still so much left to tell us. Go to Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair May 19, 2025 The Phoenician Scheme quickly floats away into frustrating abstraction. But Anderson rescues his film from oblivion in the end, closing out his story with a disarmingly sweet -- and, in some ways, provocative -- moral argument. Go to Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair May 18, 2025 A film that deftly balances squirmy comedy with gentle pathos, social suspense with offbeat warmth. Pillion gives little indication that Lighton is a first-time feature director. Go to Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair May 17, 2025 Ramsay’s jumble of pictures and sound is bound together by Lawrence’s confident, fearless gravity. It’s quite something to behold: a comedic performance that manages convincing notes of devastation, or a dramatic turn that is also screamingly funny. Go to Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% - -

Richard Lawson Vanity Fair May 17, 2025 With Dillane’s invaluable help, Urchin paints a sad and compelling portrait of someone lost in the fringes, a victim of an often indifferent system and of the complex wiring of his brain. Go to Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% - -