The Week

Lili Loofbourow The Week Apr 28, 2025 This is truly a hero's journey: It's rich in symbolic gifts, ungrateful boys, sudden alliances, and animal feedings — and pleasantly unmarred by chatty cathys like Harrison Ford. Go to Full Review Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) 39% 43%

Brendan Morrow The Week Jul 22, 2022 With Nope, Peele himself creates a spectacle, entertaining us with stunning imagery and bloody violence that's worth going to the theater for. Go to Full Review Nope (2022) 83% 69%

Mark Asch The Week May 16, 2022 A workplace drama that almost could've taken place anywhere. Go to Full Review Pleasure (2021) 88% 61%

Brendan Morrow The Week May 6, 2022 Some of its boldest choices don't fully work, but it's hard not to appreciate a Marvel blockbuster that strives to stir the pot and really lets Raimi be Raimi. Go to Full Review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 73% 85%

Andy Crump The Week Apr 22, 2022 Petite Maman is as accessible as foreign arthouse movies get, and to sweeten the pot, it's a scant 70 minutes in length. The opportunity cost is low. The return on your time investment is stratospheric. Go to Full Review Petite Maman (2021) 97% 80%

Jesse Hassenger The Week Apr 22, 2022 That mix of detail-oriented realism and wild swings into mysticism and animalistic combat isn't just a budgetary flex; it lends The Northman a thematic gravity that keeps it from floating off into self-indulgent silliness. Go to Full Review The Northman (2022) 90% 20%

A.A. Dowd The Week Apr 22, 2022 It's very clear, watching these movies, that they're adapted from a branded guidebook. They have all the dramatic interest and excitement of a manual. Go to Full Review Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) 46% 83%

Jesse Hassenger The Week Apr 15, 2022 It's still dogmatic, and dramatically inert as a result. But unlike the evangelical focus of movies like Heaven Is For Real, Miracles From Heaven, or Breakthrough, it's about the more explicitly codified traditions of Catholicism. Go to Full Review Father Stu (2022) 41% 95%

Samuel Goldman The Week Apr 15, 2022 Despite the absence of plot, Linklater's recreation of the period is beguiling. Go to Full Review Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) 91% 81%

Jesse Hassenger The Week Apr 9, 2022 Pine still has the charm and sensibility to be Hollywood's Best Chris. But first he needs to find Hollywood's Best Role for Chris Pine. Go to Full Review The Contractor (2022) 45% 72%

Jesse Hassenger The Week Apr 9, 2022 Despite generous dollops of sex and intrigue, however, glumness settles over the proceedings like a pall. Go to Full Review All the Old Knives (2022) 63% 45%

Jesse Hassenger The Week Mar 25, 2022 It's not a spectacular send-off, and Bullock will doubtless be back in the spotlight at some point. But whether it means to or not, The Lost City sends her lovelorn movie-star persona off into the sunset. Go to Full Review The Lost City (2022) 78% 83%

Brendan Morrow The Week Mar 11, 2022 A hilarious and energetic coming-of-age comedy which is refreshingly open about puberty, novel territory for Disney. Go to Full Review Turning Red (2022) 95% 68%

Brendan Morrow The Week Mar 4, 2022 However bleak and disturbing the movie might be, The Batman's grittiness is in service of an unexpectedly optimistic message, and Reeves brings some much-needed glimmers of hope to this otherwise gloomy picture. Go to Full Review The Batman (2022) 85% 40%

Vikram Murthi The Week Feb 12, 2022 In Kimi, it's not just providing Zoë Kravitz with a showcase, but demonstrating how people can intervene when technology fails us. Go to Full Review Kimi (2022) 92% 60%

Jesse Hassenger The Week Feb 4, 2022 This is a copy of a copy of an apocalypse -- and there were times where I nonetheless felt weirdly grateful to be experiencing it, in all of its dunderheaded glory. Go to Full Review Moonfall (2022) 35% 70%

Jesse Hassenger The Week Jan 28, 2022 It's hard to extract much resonance when the movie as a whole feels spectral and echoey, too -- dreamlike in the most pedestrian way possible. Go to Full Review Rifkin's Festival (2020) 41% 44%

Brendan Morrow The Week Jan 24, 2022 While the fifth round doesn't reach the heights of Craven's first, its incisive meta-commentary offers enough reason to have brought the franchise back from the dead once more. Go to Full Review Scream (2022) 76% - -

Jeva Lange The Week Dec 28, 2021 It's a Macbeth reliant instead on psychological darkness where longing and complacency are the real lurking spooks. Go to Full Review The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 93% 74%

Jesse Hassenger The Week Nov 29, 2021 Like Haim's music, the film pulses with youthful exuberance, including in its moments of longing. Their music videos are at their best when they play like vivid, expressive dreams. And with Licorice Pizza, Anderson keeps dreaming for as long as possible. Go to Full Review Licorice Pizza (2021) 90% 66%