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Lindsey Bahr Associated Press 6 days ago 3/4 A film that wants you to question your own complicity, to remove the blinders that obscure and excuse and to just look a little more closely at our world. Similar to Lucy’s songs, it’s a deconstructed social horror in a minor, haunting key. Go to Full Review Gentle Monster (2026) 69% - -

Jake Coyle Associated Press Oct 30, 2026 2.5/4 “Everest: The Other Side” becomes a mournful and increasingly solitary march. Maybe that’s appropriate. Morrison’s extreme compulsion inevitably pulls him away from us, leaving behind a more disquieting film. Go to Full Review Everest: The Other Side (2026) 77% - -

Dolores Barclay Associated Press Oct 26, 2026 Eyes Wide Shut is not Kubrick's greatest work... But like all his films, it dares to explore one of the true mysterious of life, and trust the viewer's intelligence. Go to Full Review Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 79% 74%

Lindsey Bahr Associated Press Oct 22, 2026 3/4 If “Cold War” was a raw expression of passion and tragedy, “Fatherland” is one of depression and weariness. It’s more buttoned up, more austere, a somber indictment of any postwar optimism. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Mark Kennedy Associated Press Oct 21, 2026 3/4 We may not have asked for it, but it’s a crowd-pleaser, mimicking its title character’s ability to be a little something for everyone. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Jake Coyle Associated Press Oct 20, 2026 4/4 In “Once Upon a Time in Harlem,” a documentary shared by father and son, the collective spirit and enduring sound of the Harlem Renaissance come thundering into now. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% - -

Mark Kennedy Associated Press Oct 20, 2026 2.5/4 It’s a movie in which individual toes curl and feathers rustle gloriously but the message is a wan, “Don’t be in a hurry to grow up.” The technology outstrips the story. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 99% - -

Lindsey Bahr Associated Press Oct 20, 2026 3/4 There is certainly a lot to savor in the film, not least of which is its historical consciousness and poetic portrait of homosexuality in both repressed and more permissive times. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 87% - -

Bob Thomas Associated Press Oct 20, 2026 Kubrick has fashioned an electrifying war drama, with the pictorial brilliance that has marked all his work. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Bob Thomas Associated Press Oct 16, 2026 Dr. Strangelove will enrage many, especially the far right, and dismay some, perhaps our allies. But others may find it the most effective piece of social comment on the screen in years. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Jake Coyle Associated Press Oct 15, 2026 1/4 As much as you might think a Street Fighter movie, good or bad, would at least offer up some bluntly entertaining hand-to-hand combat, it’s so messily plotted and chaotically conceived that it makes a game with six buttons seem comparatively artful. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Lindsey Bahr Associated Press Oct 15, 2026 4/4 You want something you haven’t seen before? Here it is. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press Oct 14, 2026 3/4 [Esmé Creed-Miles] gives an exhilarating turn as the sister who, yes, seems to wear it all on her sleeve, making it totally believable when she screams into the rain or laughs with delirium. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

Christy Lemire Associated Press Oct 14, 2026 1.5/4 There's nothing scary or suspenseful here, but the horror flick geeks will eat it up with a spoon. Go to Full Review Freddy vs. Jason (2003) 42% 50%

Lindsey Bahr Associated Press Oct 14, 2026 2.5/4 It’s built to get under your skin. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Mark Kennedy Associated Press Oct 14, 2026 3.5/4 “Misty Green” is an almost noirish take on Hollywood and the chase for fame. The result is one of Rock’s best projects, boosted by the ferocious abilities of Rosalind Eleazar as Misty,. She turns a star-seeking character into a star-making part. Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 61% - -

Jake Coyle Associated Press Oct 8, 2026 2/4 Affleck is a savvy and thoughtful filmmaker who can deftly weave human stories, genre mechanics and social issues together. But “Animals” feels narratively underpowered and melodramatically forced. Go to Full Review Animals (2026) 30% - -

Lindsey Bahr Associated Press Oct 8, 2026 2.5/4 The film itself might not be The Social Network, but it also may be an important piece of its moment: Here is a major studio movie that is taking on an unfathomably powerful figure in a smart and truthful way that was not dropped by its distributor. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

James Greenberg Associated Press Oct 7, 2026 Overall, it’s an affecting portrait of a modern man becoming more and more isolated from the world he helped create. Go to Full Review Memories of Overdevelopment (2010) - - - -

Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press Oct 6, 2026 3/4 There’s some deeply poignant footage here. Some of it was apparently too intimate to make the final cut. But such personal moments are key to keeping the film moving. Go to Full Review The Last First: Winter K2 (2026) 97% - -