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Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 28, 2026 The familiarity of the fantasy elements and the brusqueness with which they’re treated would be forgivable if Wildwood did a better job exploring how the real world connects to the magical side of the story. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 99% - -

Angelica Jade Bastién New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 28, 2026 It is as if Gunn and Safran had to keep Gotham vague enough that any version of Batman could be slotted into such a world when the time arises. I had a fun time watching Clayface, but it doesn’t offer up any lasting cinematic pleasures. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 23, 2026 [Sandra Hüller] gives the kind of quietly grand performance you never forget, the kind that perfectly matches this quietly grand movie. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 23, 2026 Possible Love is certainly not oblique or hard to understand, but in its exploration of the subtler issues of class, the thorny realms of desire and freedom that most films are forced to ignore, it’s one for the ages. Go to Full Review Possible Love (2026) 100% - -

Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 23, 2026 On paper, at least, it’s another smart role for Ortega... It’s just a shame about everything else in the movie. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 26% - -

Angelica Jade Bastién New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 22, 2026 The stretches of the movie that lean into the romance and sensuality of its premise are genuinely charming. When it gets distracted by lesser narrative matters, the heat dissipates. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

David Denby New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 20, 2026 Full Metal Jacket is a large-scale, exciting, and audacious movie, but it has an impotent and malicious spirit. Whose complacency is Kubrick attacking with his nasty ironies? Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 16, 2026 More than anything, The Devils looks like a science-fiction movie, giving it an unnervingly timeless quality. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 16, 2026 Whalefall goes all the way, unapologetically turning the idea of a young man being encased in his father’s toxic masculinity into text — and into a potential tomb of whale flesh he has to try to escape. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 15, 2026 Sacrifice has a silly premise, but it also has the stylistic force of a prophecy. Go to Full Review Sacrifice (2025) 35% - -

Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 12, 2026 Other Mommy, though a mere 93 minutes, overstays its welcome. Go to Full Review Other Mommy (2026) 19% - -

Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 12, 2026 Matchbox: The Movie aims for nothing — it can’t really fail because there are no expectations. Go to Full Review Matchbox The Movie (2026) 30% - -

Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 9, 2026 Every interaction feels like it’s been flattened into a series of predictable accusations instead of something that might provoke surprise or reflection. Go to Full Review Animals (2026) 30% - -

Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 7, 2026 Its best parts have a grandeur that surpass its industrial settings and get at something eerie and transcendent. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 6, 2026 A Statement, for all its well-founded despair, also manages to be an extremely entertaining movie. Go to Full Review A Statement (2026) 90% - -

Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 6, 2026 It captures a universal hesitancy, a very human recognition that putting ourselves out there can upend the pleasant, comforting meaninglessness of our lives. Alex Serian may not always be feeling much, but the film ensures that we do. Go to Full Review Behemoth! (2026) 86% - -

Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 2, 2026 In You Can See Everything, the closer we get to her, the less knowable she is — a set of pointillist dots in the shape of a person. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 2, 2026 Verity has one foot planted in a grounded reality and the other in an absurd one, and the result is that it’s left doing a very painful version of the splits. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 30, 2026 The movie may keep you waiting on its monsters, but when they show up, it delivers. Go to Full Review Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) 92% - -

Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 29, 2026 It's like being trapped inside a tuba for two hours -- and I don't just mean the over-insistent score by Cosmo Sheldrake. Everything is an underline. Every line a shout, every glance a grimace. It's all expectoration, no breath. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -