Movie Reviews

A philosophical and sociological quagmire about a young woman who agrees to carry a baby for married gay friends.

Writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples puts a fresh spin on the concept of parents vicariously living through their children.

Bill Nighy leads this quiet but frequently hilarious film about a missing son and games of Scrabble.

A Harry Potter knockoff that fails in nearly every regard.

Pete Davidson inspires Judd Apatow's best comedy since Knocked Up.

This low-key, retro sci-fi flick is a microbudget masterpiece.

A preteen Joan of Arc proudly holds her ground against hectoring clerics and the inevitable forces of history.

A well-intentioned and refreshingly forward-thinking documentary that falls short in the presentation department.

Elisabeth Moss and Odessa Young are phenomenal in this fictionalized biography of author Shirley Jackson.

There's little of, er, note in this cliché-rich music industry romantic dramedy.

Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani put a fresh spin on rom-com tropes — with help from a murder mystery.

The self-explanatory program is a way to travel to distant lands during a time when many are stuck at home.

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon return for another hilarious — and allegedly final — adventure.

A young woman resists the murderous repression of Islamic extremists in this so-so drama.

While wonderfully animated, this reboot is barely a Scooby-Doo movie.

A wonderfully cranky lead performance bolsters this clever spin on the crime caper genre.

The adult relationship of two childhood friends is tested in this poignant drama.

An Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra overcomes conflicts that are equal parts forced and believable.

A look at the strange, evolving relationship between Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova and Norwegian career criminal Karl-Bertil Nordland, who helped steal two of Kysilkova’s paintings from a gallery in Oslo.

The British-born, Mexican cuisine connoisseur and environmental activist is depicted in her natural and most beautiful state.

A painful but rewarding look back at the unreleased 1973 farce "Ghost in the Noonday Sun."