Vox

Constance Grady Vox Nov 5, 2024 You don’t necessarily want to be her, but there’s something so compelling about watching her twist herself around to become this impossible-to-please empress of all she beholds. Go to Full Review Martha (2024) 90% - -

Constance Grady Vox Oct 14, 2024 The Apprentice shows you Trump as a performance, a little unreal, a little eerie, without ever feeling as though it’s losing points to Trump the man. Go to Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% - -

Aja Romano Vox Oct 3, 2024 It’s less like a fully coherent narrative and more like a fun project for theater kids and their friends who recently got into computer animation. Go to Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% - -

Aja Romano Vox Jul 1, 2024 It wouldn’t be an American dream if it weren’t giant, over the top, and fueled less by reason than by sentiment. Go to Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% - -

Aja Romano Vox May 25, 2024 Thanks to a strong ensemble cast, incredible action scenes and production values, and a high-stakes, high-concept chase that lasted for most of the run time, the film gave depth and beauty to its brutal post-apocalyptic wasteland. Go to Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% - -

Alissa Wilkinson Vox May 21, 2024 It’s a tense, sometimes incendiary movie that constantly challenges its audience. You never know who has the upper hand in any conversation, or who is telling the truth. Go to Full Review Luce (2019) 91% 77%

Kyndall Cunningham Vox May 21, 2024 Back to Black adds up to nothing more than Daily Mail headlines. Go to Full Review Back to Black (2024) 35% - -

Zack Beauchamp Vox Apr 13, 2024 Once you understand that Civil War isn’t about what you think, you can appreciate it for what it actually is: a searing meditation on what happens when political orders collapse and violence takes on a sinister logic of its own. Go to Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% - -

Kyndall Cunningham Vox Feb 20, 2024 This Is Me… Now is a statement of Lopez’s cultural resilience, if not just her ability to rebound from a bad relationship and find herself in another attention-grabbing power couple. Go to Full Review This Is Me... Now: A Love Story (2024) 76% - -

Alex Abad-Santos Vox Dec 21, 2023 The movie is bad, but the chemistry: It’s good. Go to Full Review Anyone But You (2023) 53% 50%

Constance Grady Vox Dec 11, 2023 Debut director Cord Jefferson handles the satire of this premise with a feather-light touch. In Jefferson’s hands, it’s clear that Monk has a point when he rails about the blind spots of the publishing industry. Go to Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% - -

Constance Grady Vox Dec 8, 2023 Bella is an enormously lovable character, a fitting heart for this lovable movie from one of our prickliest directors. Go to Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% - -

Esther Zuckerman Vox Dec 4, 2023 Just like Willy’s new friends, you’re swept up by his optimism, as well as the delicate touches King brings to every scenario. Go to Full Review Wonka (2023) 82% 47%

Constance Grady Vox Nov 21, 2023 Esmail’s characters are blinded by a different kind of bourgeois comfort food, one that only comes into focus in the film’s final, biting, and deeply satisfying sequence. Go to Full Review Leave the World Behind (2023) 73% 34%

Aja Romano Vox Nov 17, 2023 You can’t have well-done social satire without follow-through, and Roth ultimately isn’t aiming his darts where he should be. Go to Full Review Thanksgiving (2023) 83% 79%

Alex Abad-Santos Vox Nov 17, 2023 Remarkably, Songbirds & Snakes has found a way to make the Hunger Games feel new and sharp. Go to Full Review The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) 64% 46%

Alissa Wilkinson Vox Nov 13, 2023 Priscilla is not a “biopic” about Priscilla Presley; it’s a memoir. It is a story told not about, but through its main subject. Go to Full Review Priscilla (2023) 84% 62%

Alex Abad-Santos Vox Nov 10, 2023 The Marvels maintains its structure and doesn’t try to function as a springboard to the next Marvel movie or television show. The Marvels gets the space to let the characters just be themselves and for us to better understand what makes them heroes. Go to Full Review The Marvels (2023) 63% 83%

Alissa Wilkinson Vox Oct 6, 2023 As a film, it’s at best serviceable, stronger in its world-building than in its climactic exorcism and nowhere near as unnerving as the original. Go to Full Review The Exorcist: Believer (2023) 22% 59%

Alissa Wilkinson Vox Sep 30, 2023 Woman of the Hour smartly weaves into the narrative the many ways in which women are conditioned to put up with men. Go to Full Review Woman of the Hour (2023) 91% - -