Los Angeles Times

Linda Gross Los Angeles Times Oct 30, 2026 "Assault on Precinct 13" is a tight, ugly and well-acted low-budget police drama that spews blood and hatred with equal intensity. Go to Full Review Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 92% 80%

Amy Nicholson Los Angeles Times Oct 23, 2026 "Clayface" wants to tell a sympathetic villain origin story like "Joker" or the TV miniseries "The Penguin." Yet, it doesn’t trust the audience to handle moral complexity. Instead, it muddies the waters and pretends to be deep. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Oct 23, 2026 David Greaves’ “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is loving, indispensable history, unabashedly enjoyable. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% - -

Glenn Whipp Los Angeles Times Oct 23, 2026 This delicate, restrained film, written and directed by Noah Segan, feels like both a love letter to Turturro and to New York itself. Go to Full Review The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) 97% - -

Tim Grierson Los Angeles Times Oct 23, 2026 The movie’s guileless android will learn about love, loss and other far-too-common human experiences. Meanwhile, the audience will wonder if the sentimental pummeling will ever end. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 26% - -

Amy Nicholson Los Angeles Times Oct 22, 2026 The fisherwoman’s love story is "Wicker’s" pulse, but the movie is really about the town and it sidelines her character to skewer the place. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times Oct 20, 2026 In the end, the idea of finding heroes or villains in this morass of death becomes an awful joke. Kubrick leads us, calmly, into a contemporary nightmare: a world where slaughter and survival are the only hard constants. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times Oct 19, 2026 Its horror has been staged on a truly spectacular scale with all the bravura special effects money can buy. This is at once its glory and its limitation. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 74% 90%

Jessica Kiang Los Angeles Times Oct 16, 2026 Just as Grandier’s ultimate sacrifice is only made meaningful by his history of repeated, lascivious indulgence in the fleshier sins, so can “The Devils” be an unapologetically maximalist exhibition of carnal depravity that is also quite profoundly moral. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Glenn Whipp Los Angeles Times Oct 16, 2026 It stands apart. Diehards might find fault with something or other, but, to quote the author, you’d have to possess a “most forbidding, disagreeable countenance” not to be charmed. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

Sergio Burstein Los Angeles Times Oct 16, 2026 [Creed-Miles] delivers an electrifying performance as the sister who, yes, seems to wear everything on her sleeve, making it entirely believable when she screams in the rain or laughs deliriously. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times Oct 16, 2026 The movie is about how history can be not only a cycle but an evolution, moving us toward a better understanding of ourselves and each other. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 87% - -

Philip K. Scheuer Los Angeles Times Oct 16, 2026 Perhaps most of all, it manages to hit peaks of comedy, shrilly dissonant but on an adult level, that are rare indeed, and at the same time to underline the tragedy in human communication. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

Amy Nicholson Los Angeles Times Oct 15, 2026 Sometimes our rational understanding of life and death bumps into a seemingly impossible presence. That’s the big idea churning under "Whalefall’s" surface. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

Philip K. Scheuer Los Angeles Times Oct 14, 2026 Spartacus will give both the moviegoer and its producers their money's worth. It is an "old" adventure story told with "new" frankness and for much of its three-and-a-half hour running time more decisively entertaining than not. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 89% 87%

Amy Nicholson Los Angeles Times Oct 14, 2026 The biggest strike against Holmes is this documentary’s very existence. Who on Earth would genuinely want Fielder, the human equivalent of a skunk, to crash their last moments with their loved ones as he does his darnedest to stink up the place? Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Edwin Schallert Los Angeles Times Oct 13, 2026 Paths of Glory is a commendably sincere picture, very well told for the most part, though it does not fulfill itself in the best screen and entertainment terms. It is practically like a documentary. Go to Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% 95%

Philip K. Scheuer Los Angeles Times Oct 13, 2026 The Killing may be downbeat (you never met a more callous cast) but it contains some remarkable moviemaking. Go to Full Review The Killing (1956) 96% 92%

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Oct 12, 2026 The filmmakers of “NAZA” make disturbingly clear is that the simplest machinery to spread dehumanization and death is happening now, easing its users into acceptance and rewriting everything about the moral cost of conflict. It’s stone-cold frightening. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Amy Nicholson Los Angeles Times Oct 9, 2026 The movie’s problems go beyond arriving simultaneously too slowly and too soon for Zuckerberg’s endgame, where his emptying social media empire has him gambling his fortunes (and ours) on AI. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -