Someday there will be a wave of brilliant Donald Trump-inspired movies about megalomaniacal businessmen. This is not the beginning of that wave.
Read MoreMartin Scorsese's latest is an uncomfortable and unrelenting historical epic.
Read MoreIt's not easy to get excited for a film summarized as "a bus driver is also a poet." But you'd be a fool to skip it, because Jim Jarmusch's latest is also one of 2016's best.
Read MoreIn a year full of great documentaries, Ava DuVernay's searing look at black mass incarceration might be the best of all.
Read MoreIt's refreshing to see a biopic about a woman, and a First Lady at that. Unfortunately, despite Natalie Portman's best efforts, Jackie isn't anything to remember.
Read MoreDamien Chazelle uses the long-lost, song-and-dance Hollywood musical to explore ideas about artistic purity.
Read MoreThough Rogue One's last 45 minutes are perhaps the most shocking and adult of the Star Wars movies, nothing about this standalone space story stands out from the big-budget crowd.
Read MoreFor a film that jumps from present to past and back again, Manchester by the Sea never leans on that crutch so much as embraces its potential.
Read MoreTom Ford's latest examines the place where art, emotion, and personal history converge, presented via a Texas highway at midnight and the torment that follows a heinous crime.
Read MoreIn Park Chan-wook's latest, the women are uncertain but crafty, the men are sex-starved yet money-driven, and the end result feels earned rather than prescribed.
Read MoreArrival is the adults-only science fiction film for the year, but why is 2016's entry leaving us feeling so unfulfilled?
Read MoreDoctor Strange is another win for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even if it mostly exists to set Benedict Cumberbatch's Good Doctor up for future adventures.
Read MoreRachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, and Timothy Spall all bring their best work to Mick Jackson's Holocaust denier drama.
Read More"It is a story so specific that it is universal." Moonlight sticks out as one of 2016's best ... easily.
Read MoreBen Affleck does an admirable job as an autistic hitman, but otherwise Gavin O'Connor's The Accountant can't find its footing.
Read MorePeter Berg plumbs the depths of the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history to find a few heroes and ponder our mastery of technology.
Read MoreNate Parker the actor shines in this retelling of Nat Turner's slave rebellion, but his work as a writer-director comes up short.
Read MoreLaika Studios' latest visual stunner might be their best effort to date.
Read MoreThe director of Take Shelter and Mud brings Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga together in an interracial love story for all generations.
Read MoreClint Eastwood may not have hit a home run with Sully, but Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, and some terrifying crash sequences make it one of the more satisfying doubles in recent memory.
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