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Reviews

Short Take: Leave No Trace

By Nick Davis
July 2, 2018
(Debra Granik, USA, Bleecker Street Pictures, Opened June 29)

Deep Focus: Sicario: Day of the Soldado

By Michael Sragow
June 28, 2018
Everybody knows: no one is spared the physical and moral brutality of dirty warfare in the cartel thriller follow-up

Film of the Week: Araby

By Jonathan Romney
June 15, 2018
Road songs: a Brazilian laborer traverses the countryside looking for work in this layered tale of experience

Deep Focus: Incredibles 2

By Michael Sragow
June 15, 2018
Superqualified: Brad Bird brings giddily elaborate motion and detail to a smartly written sequel

Film of the Week: Ludwig

By Jonathan Romney
June 8, 2018
Swan song: Luchino Visconti’s sweeping portrait of an eccentric king takes in glorious, caged nobility

Deep Focus: Hotel Artemis

By Michael Sragow
June 7, 2018
Checked out: Drew Pearce’s high-concept hospital for super-criminals is pretty vacant

Film of the Week: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

By Jonathan Romney
May 31, 2018
Songs from the heart: Agnès Varda's 1977 film of two friends from different walks of life made a soft landing at a revolutionary moment

Film of the Week: The Wild Pear Tree

By Jonathan Romney
May 18, 2018
Difficult people: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes follow-up to Winter Sleep approaches the novelistic

Deep Focus: Deadpool 2

By Michael Sragow
May 17, 2018
Better the second time around: Ryan Reynolds’s foul-mouthed, capeless superhero is true to the comic’s pleasurable, pulpy origins

Film of the Week: Ash Is Purest White

By Jonathan Romney
May 13, 2018
Honor among thieves: Zhao Tao upholds the gangster’s creed even better than her man in Jia Zhangke’s latest