Leonardo DiCaprio deserves all the praise coming his way for Paul Thomas Anderson's provocative and entertaining firecracker ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Ditto Sean Penn & Benicio del Toro. But the women are the movie's beating heart: Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall & gifted newcomer Chase Infiniti.

Such a kick to come back from vacation and find that all the excitement generated by Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is 100% justified. Smart, incisive, uncannily keyed into our current political moment and brought to life by a superlative ensemble. Incredible chase sequences.

Jordan Mintzer's perceptive appreciation of Robert Redford's gift for conveying complex emotions via the subtlest of means is a must-read. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

An adrenalized crime thriller told with minimal dialogue, MOTOR CITY is a bold experiment hobbled by clichéd writing and a strained conceit. Alan Ritchson muscles his way through but Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster are like refugees from a SOPRANOS parody. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The Hollywood Reporter critics team rounds up 15 favorites from Venice, Telluride and Toronto, including new films from Guillermo del Toro, Kathryn Bigelow, Chloé Zhao, Jim Jarmusch, Laura Poitras and more. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Werner Herzog is the anti-David Attenborough, mixing science with poetry, myth and spirituality in his beguiling nature doc GHOST ELEPHANTS, which takes him on a quest to find elusive XL pachyderms in the Angolan highlands. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Following last year’s quiet powerhouse, SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, Cillian Murphy reunites with director Tim Mielants on Netflix’s beautifully acted STEVE, a bruising but compassionate drama depicting a tough day in the life of a reform school teacher. #TIFF25 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen are world-class verbal jousting opponents in Steven Soderbergh’s smart and bracingly tart comedy about art and legacy, THE CHRISTOPHERS. #TIFF25 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Really liked THE CURRENTS, a lush & hypnotic Argentinian drama about a designer who unravels very stoically after a work trip gone awry. TIFF and NYFF slots should give writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler a much-deserved bump in recognition. My review:

A characteristically magnetic Angelina Jolie is one of three very different women involved in Paris Fashion Week in Alice Winocour's COUTURE, a wispy mood piece that aims to peel back the glamor and see the personal struggles behind the scenes. #TIFF25 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Welcome back, Derek Cianfrance. Eight years after his last feature comes ROOFMAN, a disarming comedy, romance, crime caper and understated tragedy that finds melancholy charms in the pairing of Channing Tatum & Kirsten Dunst. Top-notch ensemble too #TIFF25 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

After REBUILDING, THE HISTORY OF SOUND and THE MASTERMIND, The Year of Josh O’Connor continues with Rian Johnson’s WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, in which he's wonderful as a clerical Watson to the Holmes of Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc. #TIFF25 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Matthew McConaughey & America Ferrera are the marquee names but the wildfire is the star in Paul Greengrass' real-life rescue thriller THE LOST BUS, which is at its best when the raging elements nudge the human drama aside. #TIFF25 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Sydney Sweeney's physical transformation is impressive enough, but David Michôd’s CHRISTY, an inspirational real-life boxing drama that lurches into shocking domestic violence, is less so. My review from #TIFF www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

A never-better Valeria Bruni Tedeschi illuminates DUSE, Pietro Marcello’s challenging but also invigoratingly eccentric portrait of legendary Italian stage actress, “La Divina” Eleanora Duse. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Gus Van Sant's true-crime thriller DEAD MAN'S WIRE is so my bag — killer soundtrack of '70s bangers, grubby realist DOG DAY AFTERNOON vibe and a slyly funny turn from Bill Skarsgard as a desperate man with a grievance and a sawn-off shotgun. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

It's eight years since Kathryn Bigelow's last film & she hasn't missed a beat. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a crackling thriller, precision-tooled, viscerally immersive, very much of a piece with THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY. Great stuff. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Mona Fastvold's religious historical epic with mesmerizing music elements, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, stars Amanda Seyfried as the 18th century founder of the Shaker movement. You'll either be fascinated or left cold. Or both! #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Jim Jarmusch is working in a PATERSON vein in his funny, tender, minor-key triptych FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, a beautifully realized ensemble piece with not a single forced note of humor or poignancy. One of the #Venezia2025 competition standouts. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

It won't be for everyone, but I adored Guillermo del Toro's deeply affecting FRANKENSTEIN. Sumptuous grand-scale storytelling that favors the romance and tragedy over the horror. Oscar Isaac great as always but Jacob Elordi is a revelation. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

After back-to-back stunners with THE HANDMAIDEN and DECISION TO LEAVE, Park Chan-wook's tonally uneven satirical thriller, NO OTHER CHOICE, is a mild let-down. But my God does this guy know how to shoot a movie. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Jeremy Allen White unpacks a lot of raw melancholia in SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, Scott Cooper’s refreshingly introspective music bio focusing on a post-tour comedown during which the canonical acoustic album ‘Nebraska’ was made. #Telluride2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Hurts to say this after loving so many Luca Guadagnino films but despite a compellingly chilly performance from Julia Roberts and the pleasure of Chloë Sevigny with a sour demeanor and a frump wig, AFTER THE HUNT is almost unbearable. #venice2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Noah Baumbach's best films are invariably personal, but JAY KELLY is contrived sentimentality. George Clooney brings the magnetism as The Last Great Movie Star but Adam Sandler steals the comedy-drama out from under him as his selfless manager. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Yorgos Lanthimos is up to misanthropic mischief again in BUGONIA. The absurdist comedy is a mid-tier entry in the director's canon but I got a kick out of Emma Stone & Jesse Plemons going at it as a Big Pharma CEO and a conspiracy theorist. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

László Nemes' Oscar-winning debut SON OF SAUL set an impossibly high bar, but the meticulously crafted ORPHAN overcomes a slow start to find poignancy in a drama inspired by his father's postwar childhood. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The delicate first fiction feature from MINDING THE GAP documaker Bing Liu, PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE is a haunting outsider love story based on the novel by Atticus Lish. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Have to confess I run hot and cold on Paolo Sorrentino lately (loved HAND OF GOD, hated PARTHENOPE) but his exquisitely layered character study LA GRAZIA is quite wonderful, anchored by a towering performance from the great Toni Servillo. #Venezia82 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Here are 10 of the most hotly anticipated (at least by me) titles in the #Venezia82 lineup, kicking off tonight with Paolo Sorrentino’s ruminative character study LA GRAZIA, starring a never-better Toni Servillo. Review coming later today. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE seems a good bet to bag an international feature Oscar nom and if there's any justice, Renate Reinsve will get the best actress spot she deserved for THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD. And Stellan Skarsgard for supporting! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Benedict Cumberbatch & Olivia Colman are in peerless form in THE ROSES, lobbing vicious repartee back & forth like Wimbledon pros. But Jay Roach's overcrowded sequel loses some of the Kathleen Turner-Michael Douglas version's sting. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Can’t say sports movies are entirely my thing but had a great time participating in this THR group effort and discovering how many of them have stayed with me for years. A lot of longtime favorites here. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-s...

Vanessa Kirby is compelling as always, making Netflix's NIGHT ALWAYS COMES an absorbing watch, even if the neo-noir underclass odyssey, which unfolds over 12 fraught hours, is stronger as a character study than a portrait of its down-and-out Portland milieu. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Huge loss to film culture. My first festival was Sydney 1978 under David Stratton's tenure & I was lucky later to be able to call him a colleague & friend. So many memories of wonderful dinners in Cannes & Venice with David & my pal Margaret Pomeranz. RIP, Stratts www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Loved Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in 2003's FREAKY FRIDAY, which had a charm and buoyancy that made it perfect summer fun. It's good to see Lohan back in a signature role, but FREAKIER FRIDAY trades those qualities for strained, screechy wackiness. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Zach Cregger makes good on the promise of BARBARIANS with the twisty, twisted WEAPONS. I would have liked a touch more psychological depth but this is atmospherically charged horror led by stellar work from Julia Garner and Josh Brolin. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Jean-Jacques Beineix’s ravishing 1981 neo-noir, DIVA, made high-style over substance a swoon-inducing virtue. No wonder it became such an influential global arthouse sensation. Can’t wait to see the 4K restoration opening Aug. 22 in NY and 29 in LA, with other cities to follow.

Liam Neeson honors the deadpan legacy of Leslie Nielsen with blissful self-irony but Pamela Anderson steals every scene in THE NAKED GUN, a reboot of the police procedural spoof that yields plenty of laughs even if it starts running out of steam midway. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

In theaters Friday, TOGETHER stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple testing the limits of codependency after falling under the influence of a supernatural cult. A squirm-inducing, often hilarious jolt of bonkers gross-out horror. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

One of the movies I'm most looking forward to at the Venice Film Festival. THE HANDMAIDEN and DECISION TO LEAVE are two of the best films of the last decade.

Anxious times can yield exceptional horror movies and the 21st century has had plenty of both. Here’s 25 bone-chilling favorites that messed with my dreams, ranked. Feel free to respond with your own picks. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/25-bes...

Appropriately for Marvel's First Family, THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS is about family as a force of hope, strength and unity. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach & Joseph Quinn nail that rousing dynamic with real feeling. Above all, it's fun. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Ari Aster's Covid hothouse neo-Western starring Joaquin Phoenix & Pedro Pascal, EDDINGTON, is now in theaters. It's getting a generous pass from many critics, even a full-throated endorsement from some. Wish I shared that enthusiasm. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Continuing our VERTIGO pilgrimage, my partner as Kim Novak as Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster contemplating Carlotta Valdes. Should I be concerned?

Anyone with an enduring love for the first two Christopher Reeve SUPERMAN movies will get a big kick out of James Gunn's overstuffed, sometimes chaotic but funny, playful and deeply affectionate take on the DC crown jewel. Plus, there's Krypto! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

In theaters July 18, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CLOUD is a slow-burn, suspenseful thriller about a bored factory worker seduced by the quick-buck rewards of black-market online resale until it comes back to bite him in the ass in a violent climax. Hypnotic stuff; loved never knowing where it would go next.

Netflix’s THE OLD GUARD 2, starring Charlize Theron & KiKi Layne, has many of the elements that made the first movie an unexpected surprise at the height of COVID lockdown. But crucially, the immortal warrior saga doesn’t have director Gina Prince-Bythewood www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Like its cross-bred dinosaurs, JURASSIC PARK REBIRTH is “engineered entertainment,” hatched primarily from the first and third parts of Spielberg’s original trilogy. But I had a good time, especially after the awful DOMINION. Scarlett Johansson > Chris Pratt www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Finally got around to Matt Wolf’s enthralling 2-part Paul Reubens doc for HBO, PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF. A unique talent who tucked away his queerness to serve a man-child alter ego that all but erased the man himself, then stripped of his dignity in overblown obscenity charges. Brought me to tears. 💔

Caught up at @ptownfilm.bsky.social with Mathias Broe's accomplished first feature, SAUNA, a sensitively handled queer romantic drama about a Copenhagen gay bathhouse employee who falls for a trans man. Melancholy and sensual. My THR review. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...