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Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Oct 23, 2026 Every frame is spare, elegant, intimate, and the film moves along so gracefully that you’re barely prepared for how exhilarating, and how quietly devastating, its final moment is. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Oct 19, 2026 This group of people laughing, arguing, and reminiscing about a great era of American history—and also about members of their cohort who were long gone—recaptured lightning in a bottle. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Oct 19, 2026 In an age of lowered expectations—for movies, for romance, for just about everything—maybe [Elinor is] the Austen heroine we need... Austen knew what she was talking about, and time hasn’t eroded her wisdom. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

TIME Staff TIME Magazine Oct 16, 2026 The most original American comedy in years and at the same time a supersonic thriller that should have audiences chomping their fingernails right down to the funny bone. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Oct 16, 2026 This is a dense picture—there’s almost too much to unpack, if you can be bothered to care about any of it. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

TIME Staff TIME Magazine Oct 16, 2026 Lolita is the saddest and most important victim of the current reckless adaptation fad, which, in sterile practice, kills the goose in order to hatch a golden egg. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

TIME Staff TIME Magazine Oct 14, 2026 For all its bows to the bankers, Spartacus is a peculiarly impressive piece of moviemaking. Director Stanley Kubrick, 32, shows mastery in all departments: cast, camera and cutting. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 89% 87%

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Oct 9, 2026 It’s important to know that you needn’t approach Artificial with feelings of dread. What makes the movie distinctive is how enjoyably watchable it is. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Oct 9, 2026 It’s almost impossible to like Misty, and yet, in a film that’s both acerbic and tender, Eleazar makes us love her, almost against our will. Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 61% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Oct 9, 2026 Its actors, including Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, as well as two young newcomers, make you believe in one family’s sudden nightmare. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Oct 8, 2026 Frances Haugen is the conscience and the true hero of The Social Reckoning, and Sorkin knows it. He practically hands the movie over to Madison, and even in a movie filled with talking, it’s her stalwart yet unassuming presence that makes it sing. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Sep 30, 2026 Iñárritu and his star aren’t telling us a story; they’re selling us, relentlessly, on the genius of the movie they’ve made. This is reverse-engineered awards bait, a movie that insists it’s digging for the truth, when all it’s really doing is shoveling. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Sep 30, 2026 The movie is pleasing, if slight, though Kikuchi’s performance is nuanced enough to keep you watching, and to keep you rooting for her. Go to Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 91% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Sep 30, 2026 Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is most entertaining when it indulges its tawdry side. Go to Full Review Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026) 96% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Sep 24, 2026 Wilson is an affable armchair tour guide into offline worlds you’d never have thought to explore, and the movie has a casual, ambling charm. Go to Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 97% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Sep 24, 2026 Resident Evil is largely a one-man show, and Abrams carries it deftly. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

TIME Staff TIME Magazine Sep 22, 2026 Ingratiating enough to make Mick Dundee a man for all box offices. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Richard Schickel TIME Magazine Sep 17, 2026 It is all so gruesome that horror turns to humor and the fun comes from the appreciation of being cleverly conned by Director Steve Miner. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 17% 42%

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Sep 8, 2026 Hansen's unfolding mania is one of the chief features of Primetime, and Pattinson's performance is one of the only reasons to see it. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine Sep 6, 2026 Sometimes it’s a relief when a movie captures undercurrents of anxiety that, in our daily lives, we find difficult to put into words. With Possible Love, it’s as if Lee has taken our unspoken feelings and handed them to his actors. Go to Full Review Possible Love (2026) 100% - -