Christopher Orr
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John-Paul Steele / Barcroft Media / Getty / ... The Secret of Scooby-Doo’s Enduring Appeal
Why on earth has the formulaic series, which debuted half a century ago, outlasted just about everything else on television?
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Warner Bros. Pictures Godzilla: King of the Monsters Is an Utterly Disastrous Sequel
The latest “MonsterVerse” movie from Warner Bros. is lazily plotted and feels wholly disconnected from the films that came before it.
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MGM The Hustle Is a Lazy Gender Swap
The remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson doesn’t do much with its new female leads—and what it does do, it does poorly.
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Helen Sloane / HBO The Old Thrills of Game of Thrones Might Be Gone for Good
A complete refresher on the HBO epic’s many shaky story lines as the show heads into its long-awaited final season
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Netflix The Highwaymen Is a Pleasant Throwback of a Movie
Netflix’s latest offering tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde from the perspective of the lawmen—played by Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson—who pursued and killed them.
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Netflix Netflix’s New Heist Movie Gets Lost in the Jungle
Triple Frontier, by the gifted director J. C. Chandor, is a letdown compared with his prior work.
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Marvel Studios One Way Captain Marvel Could Have Been a Much Better Movie
What if the film had treated its amnesia story line as a creative opportunity rather than as a hindrance?
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Focus Features / Warner Bros / Sony Pictures ... What Will Win at the 2019 Oscars
Can Roma nab Best Picture? Will A Star Is Born be snubbed? Here are The Atlantic’s predictions for the 91st Academy Awards.
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Warner Bros. Isn’t It Romantic Fails as Both Rom-Com and Satire
The Rebel Wilson vehicle is neither funny nor clever enough to be the movie it wants to be.
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Focus Features Everybody Knows Is a Slow-Burning Thriller
Asghar Farhadi’s new family drama starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem centers on a mysterious kidnapping that unearths long-buried secrets.
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Caleb Deschanel / Sony Pictures Classics Never Look Away Is a Grim and Gorgeous Epic
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-nominated German drama is worth every minute of its three-hour run time.
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HBO / Everett Collection Is Tony Soprano Dead or Not?
In a new, authoritative book by Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, the Sopranos creator David Chase appears to make an accidental confession.
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Annapurna Pictures Vice Is a Goofy and Pedantic Dick Cheney Biopic
Adam McKay’s film wastes exceptional performances by Christian Bale and Amy Adams.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The 17 Best Films of 2018
Our critics make their picks.
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Disney Mary Poppins Returns: Cunning Homage or Shameless Rip-Off?
Opinions will vary, but for those in the proper mood, the new sequel starring Emily Blunt is a very pleasant diversion.
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Carlos Somonte / Netflix Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma Is a Masterpiece of Cinematic Technique
Intimate in focus yet vast in scope, the director’s homage to his childhood in early-1970s Mexico City may be the best film of the year.
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Universal Pictures Green Book: A Flimsy Tale Elevated by Two Great Performances
The director Peter Farrelly’s film about transcending race is saved by bravura turns by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
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Netflix The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Doesn’t Quite Add Up
Though its “chapters” are individually compelling, the Coen brothers’ Western anthology film is an ungainly whole.
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HBO The Problem With HBO’s The Deuce
Up until the second-season finale, it was a show on which almost nothing ever happened.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Yet Another Reason the New ‘Popular Film’ Oscar Is a Terrible Idea
So far, people have been focusing on the perverse incentives the award creates for Academy voters. But even more pernicious could be the incentives it creates for filmmakers and studios.
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