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Monday, May 6

17

‘Force of Nature: The Dry 2’ Review: Eric Bana’s Brooding Detective Is Back in a Quasi-Sequel That Dilutes the Tension

Anna Torv, Deborra-Lee Furness and Richard Roxburgh also appear in Robert Connolly’s adaptation of the Jane Harper novel about a woman who goes missing on a rainforest hike.

Friday, Apr 26

20

‘Illinoise’ Theater Review: Justin Peck Transforms Sufjan Stevens’ Concept Album Into a Soaring Rush of Late Adolescent Experience

Co-written with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, the dance musical is a transcendent distillation of youth in all its pain and glory.

Tuesday, Apr 23

16

Critics’ Conversation: ‘Civil War’ and Civic Anxiety

Amid ongoing debate over whether Alex Garland’s latest film sufficiently spells out its stakes, two THR critics ponder the burdens of political art during a particularly fraught election year.

Saturday, Apr 20

07

‘Stereophonic’ Theater Review: David Adjmi’s Audaciously Original Play Is a Transfixing Look at Building Art Out of Emotional Wreckage

Daniel Aukin’s lauded production, featuring new songs by Will Butler of Arcade Fire, transfers to Broadway with its gifted ensemble of actor-musicians intact.

Wednesday, Apr 17

18

‘Nowhere Special’ Review: James Norton Brings Raw Feeling to Intimate Father-Son Drama

Inspired by a real-life adoption case, Uberto Pasolini’s Northern Ireland-set tearjerker follows a single parent with a terminal illness as he seeks a new family to raise his four-year-old boy.

Tuesday, Apr 16

‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson in Guy Ritchie’s Slapdash Tale of WWII Derring-Do

Eiza González, Alex Pettyfer and Henry Golding also star in the semi-fictionalized account of a covert mission unofficially mandated by Churchill to neutralize Nazi U-boats in the North Atlantic.

Friday, Apr 12

‘Challengers’ Review: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist Make a Sizzling Trio in Luca Guadagnino’s Sexy Grand Slam

Complicated interpersonal history gets tangled with the competitive drive of pro tennis in this intense round of action on and off the court.

Tuesday, Mar 19

04

‘An Enemy of the People’ Review: Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli Set Off Sparks in Visceral Distillation of 1882 Ibsen Drama

Sam Gold directs the Broadway revival in a new adaptation by Amy Herzog, who penned last year’s scorching update of the Norwegian dramatist’s ‘A Doll’s House.’

Friday, Mar 15

15

‘Shirley’ Review: Regina King Is Formidable in Solid Political Bio That Only Sometimes Matches Its Subject’s Passion

Lance Reddick, Lucas Hedges and Terrence Howard also star in John Ridley’s Netflix drama chronicling Shirley Chisholm’s historic 1972 run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Wednesday, Mar 13

21

‘Omni Loop’ Review: Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri Bring Depth and Vulnerability to Moving Existential Sci-Fi

Bernardo Britto’s drama set in the near future follows unlikely collaborators puzzling over time travel while one of them remains stuck in the same five days on repeat.

Saturday, Mar 9

06

‘I Don’t Understand You’ Review: Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells Make a Winsome Couple in Entertaining Gaycation Comedy

The stars play adoptive parents waiting for the mother of what they hope will be their child to give birth while they take an anniversary trip to Italy.

04

‘High Tide’ Review: An Undocumented Immigrant Finds a Reprieve From His Lonely Limbo in Tender Queer Drama

Marco Pigossi stars as a Brazilian adrift in late-summer Provincetown in writer-director Marco Calvani’s debut, which also features Marisa Tomei and Bill Irwin.

02

‘Cold Wallet’ Review: Raúl Castillo Is Compelling as a Desperate Financial Scam Victim in Tense Vigilante Thriller

Melonie Diaz, Tony Cavalero and Josh Brener also star in Cutter Hodierne’s account of a Robin Hood heist and the crypto criminal playing mind games with his assailants.

Wednesday, Mar 6

19

‘Ricky Stanicky’ Review: Zac Efron and John Cena in Peter Farrelly’s Tired Throwback to ’90s Chaos Comedy

Three friends get more than they bargained for when they hire a low-rent celebrity impersonator to pose as the imaginary buddy who has served as their scapegoat since childhood.

16

Oscars 2024: Who Will Win, Should Win

Best Picture WILL WIN: Oppenheimer The Zone of Interest, Poor Things, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers and Barbie each have many admirers, but Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece has swept the entire awards season, and there’s no reason to…

Wednesday, Feb 21

20

‘Spaceman’ Review: Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan Navigate Marriage Across the Universe in Absorbing but Trite Netflix Sci-Fi

Isabella Rossellini and Kunal Nayyar also appear in Johan Renck’s film of the Jaroslav Kalfur novel ‘Spaceman of Bohemia,’ featuring Paul Dano as the voice of an alien arachnid.

‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Review: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan and Beanie Feldstein in Ethan Coen’s Strained Lesbian Crime Caper

Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon also appear in this nutty comedy set in 1999, written by Coen with his wife Tricia Cooke.

07

‘The Devil’s Bath’ Review: A Disturbing Psychodrama About a Woman Driven to Extremes in 18th-Century Rural Austria

Genre auteurs Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s third feature explores in unflinching detail a dark footnote in early modern European history.

Tuesday, Feb 20

17

‘Pepe’ Review: A Footnote in the Pablo Escobar Saga Is Dreamily Reimagined as a Hippo’s Reflections on Life and Death

Dominican director Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias weaves together documentary and fiction as a megaherbivore looks back on being a stranger in a strange land.

Monday, Feb 19

21

‘Sex’ Review: Nordic Drama Digging Into Male Sexuality Is Provocative, Insightful and Entertaining

Dag Johan Haugerud’s candid look at constricting gender roles centers on two friends spurred by different experiences to readjust their sense of self.

Sunday, Feb 18

17

‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop Tracks the Return of African Treasures Plundered by the French in Powerful Consideration of Reparations

The director of ‘Atlantics’ shifts her gaze from Senegal to Benin in this documentary with fictionalized elements, viewing art as a repository for memory.

Saturday, Feb 17

23

‘Suspended Time’ Review: Olivier Assayas Fails to Find Meaning in the Monotony of Pandemic Lockdown

The French director casts Vincent Macaigne as his alter ego, isolating in the early days of COVID-19 with his brother in their childhood home, together with their respective partners.

20

‘Another End’ Review: Gael García Bernal Brings Emotional Heat to Otherwise Distancing Mind-Bender About Grief

Following his debut, ‘The Wait,’ Piero Messina’s second feature continues to explore bereavement, with a cast that also includes Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo and Olivia Williams.

Friday, Feb 16

23

‘La Cocina’ Review: Rooney Mara in Explosive Account of Immigrant Restaurant Workers Chasing the American Dream

Raúl Briones also stars in Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ fourth feature, set in the kitchen of a New York City restaurant, primarily during the frantic lunchtime rush.

22

‘Cuckoo’ Review: Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens Keep You Glued Even When This Reproductive Horror Careens Off the Rails

Writer-director Tilman Singer follows his possession chiller, ‘Luz,’ with a stay at a German Alpine vacation resort that uncovers a nightmarish breeding conspiracy.

Thursday, Feb 15

‘Crossing’ Review: Levan Akin’s Intergenerational Journey Becomes a Stirring Affirmation of Trans Solidarity

The Swedish director follows ‘And Then We Danced’ with a drama that draws from his dual ancestry, traveling from the Black Sea coast of Georgia to Istanbul.

‘Small Things Like These’ Review: Cillian Murphy Is Superb as a Haunted Man in Subdued but Powerful Irish Berlin Opener

Emily Watson also appears in Tim Mielants’ film, adapted from the novella by Claire Keegan, which deals with intergenerational trauma and the Church-sanctioned cruelty of Ireland’s past.

Wednesday, Feb 7

18

‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Review: Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse in Diablo Cody’s Lame ’80s Horror Comedy Throwback

Zelda Williams directs the reanimation romance about a high-school outsider and the Victorian-era corpse she summons from the grave.

Friday, Jan 26

16

The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2024

Steven Soderbergh’s haunted-house movie, new films starring Kieran Culkin and Aubrey Plaza, and docs about Christopher Reeve, unionizing Amazon workers, and Argentinian cowboys are among THR critics’ favorites from the festival.

Thursday, Jan 25

20

‘It’s What’s Inside’ Review: A High-Concept Mind-Bender With Style to Burn, if Not Substance

Netflix made the largest acquisition out of Sundance 2024, paying $17 million for Greg Jardin’s psychological thriller about a reunited group of college friends and a party game gone wrong.