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Bruce McCabe Boston Globe Nov 6, 2026 Rocky's fate somehow matters. One of the nicest touches to the film is that it doesn't tell you what that fate is. It's told you who Rocky is and it says that's all you need to know. Go to Full Review Rocky (1976) 95% 69%

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Nov 5, 2026 3/4 As the film unfolds, "Fatherland" becomes an odd take on the road trip movie: the usual trope of characters getting to know each other while having adventures is replaced by two people who know each other far too well. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Nov 5, 2026 3/4 Malkovich, who deservedly won best actor at the Venice Film Festival, will be the front runner at the Oscars if they put him in the correct category. Go to Full Review Wild Horse Nine (2026) 94% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Nov 5, 2026 3.5/4 "Godzilla Minus Zero" is bigger, louder, darker, and longer. It’s better than its predecessor, and I believe that Yamazaki will win his second best visual effects Oscar for work that tops the earlier film’s excellent imagery. Go to Full Review Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) 90% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Nov 3, 2026 2/4 What is supposed to be a tale of queerness as seen across three generations is instead a gimmicky mishmash of styles populated by mostly one-dimensional characters. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 86% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Nov 3, 2026 1.5/4 This film, by Oscar-winning directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ("Free Solo"), fails to do what any good documentary should do: It does not inform us of anything. Go to Full Review Everest: The Other Side (2026) 76% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Nov 3, 2026 4/4 Greaves’s son David, one of the cameramen at Ellington’s house in Harlem, restored and assembled the 16mm footage. The finished product is one of the most informative and important documentaries I’ve ever seen. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Nov 3, 2026 4/4 Any actor who is a favorite of both Spike Lee and the Coens should have been nominated by now. He’d get his first nod for one of the year’s best movies. Go to Full Review The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) 98% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Nov 3, 2026 1.5/4 But there is nothing Seussian about this movie besides the fact that someone at his estate greenlit this hot mess. You can replace the Cat in the Hat with, say, a Pig in a Wig, and the outcome would be the same. Go to Full Review The Cat in the Hat (2026) 47% - -

Jay Carr Boston Globe Oct 30, 2026 Shakespeare goes out the window pretty quickly in Baz Luhrmann's new updating, and MTV comes in the door -- followed closely by artistic disaster. Go to Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) 79% 77%

Chris Vognar Boston Globe Oct 30, 2026 Most of all, “Norm” is a reminder that Macdonald, who died of cancer in 2021, was very, very funny. You haven’t laughed until you’ve heard his bit about Hitler’s dog. Go to Full Review Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald (2026) 90% - -

Jay Carr Boston Globe Oct 26, 2026 Although the year's most eagerly anticipated film is ambitious as few films are, it falls conspicuously short in realizing those ambitions. Sometimes laughably short. It's a movie about sex made by -- and, I suspect, for -- people who are afraid of sex. Go to Full Review Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 79% 74%

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Oct 22, 2026 1.5/4 Imagine an overly twee, two-hour version of the last act of Steven Spielberg’s "A.I." and you have an idea what you’re in for here. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 26% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Oct 22, 2026 3/4 The Fisherwoman and the Wicker Husband are shown in scenes of loud, frenetic, bed-breaking, speaker-rattling sex. Hints of these scenes in the trailer have resulted in an endless string of TikTok videos of women reacting with glee. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Odie Henderson Boston Globe Oct 22, 2026 3.5/4 Everyone involved is in service to a story powered by a young female protagonist and her socially awkward male buddy. "Wildwood" isn’t just a fantastic movie — it’s a film that will make certain people feel seen. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 98% - -

Jay Carr Boston Globe Oct 20, 2026 Only intermittently does it meet the expectations that have been building during the five years it took Kubrick to shoot it. What Full Metal Jacket does do better than any other Vietnam film, though, is to wed the action there to a chilly psychotic tone. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Michael Blowen Boston Globe Oct 19, 2026 Kubrick's film is the best black comedy since his own Dr. Strangelove. His unsparing cynicism, unrelenting cruelty, macabre sense of humor and menacing style form a Swiftian vision of an exploding nuclear family. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 75% 90%

Marjory Adams Boston Globe Oct 16, 2026 It is a rather bitter, wickedly clever, tremendously amusing spoof of conditions which worry most of us in the dim reaches of the night. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Marjory Adams Boston Globe Oct 16, 2026 Lolita is a masterpiece of irony, which is a quality not often appreciated by filmgoers. What is good in the film, including the vigorous directorial style of Stanley Kubrick, are not virtues most advertised. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 83% 84%

Tom Russo Boston Globe Oct 14, 2026 The inevitable showdown between the two killers doesn't shortchange viewers. Go to Full Review Freddy vs. Jason (2003) 42% 50%