Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) 3 days ago 3.5/4 “Fjord,” the latest provocation from Romania’s Cristian Mungiu, is good for starting conversations if not arguments, but it’s a little tricker than it seems on the surface. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) 3 days ago 2.5/4 It’s heavy on the whimsy from the get-go, but the whimsy is anchored. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Oct 22, 2026 3.5/4 A movie that makes a case for its subject's legacy with as much force and clarity as Raoul Peck’s James Baldwin doc “I Am Not Your Negro.” Go to Full Review Edward Said: Between Worlds (2026) 94% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Oct 19, 2026 3/4 What saves this “Sense and Sensibility"—what gives it both sense and sensibility—is Edgar-Jones as Elinor and George McKay as her sweetly hapless soulmate Edward Ferrars. Both actors know how to rein it in and make repression seem sexy... Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Oct 16, 2026 4/4 A documentary that breaks every rule of the form while taking audiences on one of the wildest rollercoaster rides of the year, complete with a mid-movie reveal that rearranged my head in ways I’m still coming to terms with. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Oct 9, 2026 4/4 The simplicity of the format in "NAZA" – its visual restraint, Abraham's quiet probing – is the source of its art, forcing a viewer to "see" the violence these men describe. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Oct 1, 2026 3/4 Digger is a maximalist buffet that invites you to dive in and pig out, and if you don't mind a lot of additives, clashing flavors, and heartburn, it's a food orgy like few others. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 29, 2026 3/4 A Pre-Code Joan Crawford melodrama notable for A) being a “lost film” for 90 years due to copyright absurdities and B) featuring a poufy gown designed by MGM’s in-house couturier Adrian. Go to Full Review Letty Lynton (1932) - - - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 29, 2026 3.5/4 Predators is still a far more nuanced take on a difficult subject than “To Catch a Predator” or “Primetime.” Go to Full Review Predators (2025) 97% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 29, 2026 2.5/4 It's a merrily exploitative thriller about a disturbingly exploitative TV show, a drama very much in the “Network” vein. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 18, 2026 3.5/4 That tripartite structure arguably blunts the film’s impact, but it also shows an inspirational army of individuals fighting uphill for a livable existence. Go to Full Review Union Town (2026) 100% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 18, 2026 3/4 Worth it for the performances and for the way Corbijn and company capture Highsmith’s gift for the urbanity of evil. Go to Full Review A Talent for Murder (2026) 78% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 18, 2026 3.5/4 Chief laurels go to Jeon Do-yeon as the working-class wife, who grows before our eyes from an insecure chatterbox to a woman of immense strength and dignity. Go to Full Review Possible Love (2026) 100% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 18, 2026 3/4 Morrison puts Boston onscreen with intelligence and rare geographical logic, but she’s a Cambridge kid, so it makes sense. Go to Full Review Love of Your Life (2026) 81% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 18, 2026 3/4 What sounds didactic is ripely funny and a good deal more than B-movie parody; Miller buries her social critique beneath layers of Technicolor cheese and schlocky horror effects, but it’s there. Go to Full Review The Face of Horror (2026) 83% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 18, 2026 2/4 This isn’t it. Go to Full Review Everybody Wants to F*ck Me (2026) 63% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 18, 2026 3/4 A genuine curio for fans of the director and devotees of the strange; others proceed with caution. Go to Full Review Bucking Fastard (2026) 69% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 16, 2026 “Alpha Gang” definitely won’t be everyone’s cup of spiked punch, but I had a ball, and you have to admire the Zellners’ awe-inspiring commitment to the bit. Go to Full Review Alpha Gang (2026) 74% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 16, 2026 4/4 A fair amount of folks are dismissing this as Minor Pedro, and for much of its running it seems to be, entertainingly so. But I see a master at dusk, spinning the expanding, empathetic tales he knows will be his last. Go to Full Review Bitter Christmas (2026) 87% - -

Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 16, 2026 3/5 Another inspirational true-life drama. Go to Full Review Being Heumann (2026) 84% - -