Movie Reviews

The Netflix adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock's novel is grim in ways that can be both exciting and wearying: so many twists and betrayals, so many awful characters, so many horrific acts of violence.

The relationship at the center of Kaufman's new Netflix film might not be long for the world, but the main characters are nevertheless awfully hard to get out of your mind.

NPR offers a selective preview of what Hollywood thinks it will be showing in cinemas this fall.

Spinning a Chinese legend into family-friendly entertainment with worldwide appeal is a tricky business. The new version of Mulan feels like a watered-down version of a potentially captivating story.

Christopher Nolan's time-bending thriller is the film that Hollywood has been counting on to bring audiences back to movie theaters. Tenet was released in movie theaters Thursday.

It might not be a great film, but the nostalgic draw of the guileless Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan has never been stronger.

Satirist, director and the creator of Veep, Armando Iannucci does Charles Dickens in The Personal History Of David Copperfield. And NPR's critic says there's a lot that's unexpected in the movie.

The documentary Class Action Park tells the story of a New Jersey theme park that was widely beloved, successful and extremely dangerous.

Ethan Hawke plays the famed Serbian American inventor in a new film that reminds us what a modern creature Tesla was — a figure from the past who never stopped pointing the way to the future.

Tesla is a thoroughly eccentric biopic starring Ethan Hawke as the electrical engineer Nikola Tesla, a rival of Thomas Edison's.

A new documentary shows how the CIA and Britain's MI6 engineered the forcible removal of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The 1953 coup continues to rattle history to this day.

Boys State documentary explores how a group of Texas teens participated in the American Legion program to learn about democracy by organizing political parties and running a mock government.