movie-review

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Looks Back in Anger at Black Soldiers’ Experience in Vietnam

This gripping Netflix drama about four veterans returning to Ho Chi Minh City for closure and buried treasure is messy and volatile — just like its tormented characters

‘You Don’t Nomi’ Respects ‘Showgirls’ Enough to Take Its Badness Seriously

This thought-provoking documentary reconsiders the 1995 camp classic, exploring why we can’t let go of its engrossing, tawdry portrait of sex, ambition and the American dream

With ‘The King of Staten Island,’ Judd Apatow Finally Finds a Screw-Up He Can’t Fix

The director of ‘Knocked Up’ and ‘Trainwreck’ teams up with Pete Davidson for a poignant comedy about a troubled twentysomething whose arrested development is far less adorable than in Apatow’s previous films

Netflix’s Terrible ‘The Last Days of American Crime’ Movie Is Too Dumb to Be Offensive in 2020

Militarized police, a callous government, a violent society on the precipice of anarchy: This generic heist flick thinks it’s sooo edgy, unaware that our actual world is far worse