The New Republic

Aaron Regunberg The New Republic Oct 28, 2026 Though the cinematography is effective, there is no filmmaking magic or trickery here, no moments that a reasonable person could describe as propaganda. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Adam Nayman The New Republic Oct 28, 2026 Fatherland is a small film, but it’s sharp and polished and jewel-like, multifaceted. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Laura Marsh The New Republic Oct 28, 2026 The most impressive thing about You Can See Everything is the way it recognizes the dangers of parody and makes room for Holmes’s humanity. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

David Klion The New Republic Oct 28, 2026 Musk balances a critique of the wider structures that have empowered its subject with an attempt to illustrate Musk’s twisted subjectivity. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Oct 16, 2026 Dr. Strangelove is not eminent merely because of the flatness of surrounding movie country: it is a fine achievement; a fiery laugh at those humans down there, parochially self-righteous and self-condemned. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Oct 16, 2026 To "normalize" Humbert's sexual penchant and to remove indications of sexual activity from his story is not censorship but metamorphosis; it results in a different, lesser work. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Oct 14, 2026 Spartacus is a trap for snobs. They assume that because it is a costume drama three and a half hours long, has seven stars and a cast of many thousands, it must ipso facto be bad. In proof, it is an entertaining show. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 89% 87%

Annie Berke The New Republic Oct 9, 2026 The Social Reckoning is a journalism movie that feels like a play, and a didactic one at that. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Annie Berke The New Republic Oct 9, 2026 Over and over, Digger teases us with the prospect of something real, only to offer more stagecraft. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Adam Nayman The New Republic Oct 9, 2026 Mungiu might mean for Fjord to cut through the noise and register as a howl into the void, but it’s finally more like an echo chamber: loud and discombobulating, spacious and hollow. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Malcolm Ferguson The New Republic Sep 24, 2026 Infidels was genuinely hard to watch. Go to Full Review Run Hide Fight: Infidels (2026) 27% - -

Adam Nayman The New Republic Aug 31, 2026 For a movie set in a wasteland, The Dog Stars is cluttered with plot points and symbolic gimmicks; the pileup distracts from the fact that it isn’t really about anything at all. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Adam Nayman The New Republic Aug 7, 2026 It’s a heady, deliciously visceral celebration of the toxic nourishment we derive from mass-produced multiplex junk. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Adam Nayman The New Republic Jul 25, 2026 Slattery’s performance is wonderfully unhinged. Go to Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 78% - -

Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Jun 26, 2026 This comedy of large and small errors is the longest picture ever made and the most expensive, and is thus a tinsel landmark. Go to Full Review Cleopatra (1963) 61% 67%

Adam Nayman The New Republic Jun 23, 2026 Assayas doesn’t pretend to fully understand his antihero, much less to know better than him, and cultivates just enough bewildered distance in the process to give his film the sort of mystic-slash-metaphysical frisson promised by its title. Go to Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 44% - -

Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Jun 17, 2026 This film is not nearly as good as the first part of "Ivan"... But to fail to see it is to deny yourself a number of glimpses of life, art, and history through the eyes of a genius. Go to Full Review Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958) 100% 89%

Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Jun 17, 2026 I greatly enjoyed Hugh Griffith's performance as a wily Arabian sheikh, and I thought the chariot race superb. But I was disappointed in the gifted William Wyler's inability to lift the religious scenes above the Christmas-card level. Go to Full Review Ben-Hur (1959) 87% 89%

Robert Evett The New Republic Jun 16, 2026 This time, however, the uncontrollable desire to put out a really long movie seems to have robbed the producer of all restraint. The scissors got lost. It's hard to believe that any part of the piece fell to the cutting room floor. Go to Full Review The Ten Commandments (1956) 82% 87%

Annie Berke The New Republic Jun 8, 2026 Diverting but not unforgettable, Power Ballad is lovely—but would I wanna hear it again? Go to Full Review Power Ballad (2026) 88% - -