New movie reviews: Critics' picks
Check out the best new movies, as reviewed by Time Out's critics, then find showtimes and buy movie tickets.
Sightseers: movie review
- Rated as: 5/5
- Critics choice
Why are British filmmakers so good at killing off actors while making audiences laugh? Something morbid and mirthful courses thicker in the blood overseas: It’s only a matter of time before another A Fish Called Wanda, Shallow Grave or In Bruges reminds us of the darker nature of the buttoned-down,
- Thu May 23 - Mon May 27
Augustine: movie review
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
Long before it became a favorite pejorative of intolerant husbands, “hysteria” was filling 19th-century French sanatoriums with females suffering from fits, outbursts and other assorted rebellions of the body. One such working-class girl, Augustine (Soko), is interned in a prisonlike hospital due
- Thu May 23 - Mon May 27
Stories We Tell: movie review
- Rated as: 5/5
- Critics choice
She used to be one of the more alluringly damaged actors in movies (e.g., The Sweet Hereafter; a strong remake of Dawn of the Dead), but Sarah Polley has evolved into a director who can’t settle for mere feel-badness. That’s something to applaud in itself. While watching Stories We Tell, Polley’s
- Thu May 23 - Mon May 27
Scarecrow: movie review
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
They meet by chance on the side of a rural highway. Max (Gene Hackman), irascibly chomping on a stogie, would rather have nothing to do with Francis (Al Pacino), a spryly energetic fellow drifter. They eye each other warily. They try to hail down the occasional passing car to no avail. It’s an
- Thu May 23
42: movie review
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
Jackie Robinson’s story is so blue-sky heroic and transcendent, it becomes hard for any filmmaker to run the bases without falling into emotional goo. (Tellingly, the first attempt, in 1950, starred Robinson himself and still felt like a fantasy.) Writer-director Brian Helgeland has somehow found a
- Thu May 23 - Mon May 27
No: movie review
- Rated as: 5/5
- Critics choice
It’s an unspeakably good time to be a political cynic at the movies. The opposite of earnest, Lincoln vibrates with sneaky guile—here’s how your 13th Amendment sausage gets made. Zero Dark Thirty shows off the grotty side of justice (too much so for some), while Argo plods toward its Oscar
- Thu May 23 - Mon May 27
Plimpton!: movie review
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
That exclamation point is earned: Over his 76-year tenure on this earth, George Plimpton cofounded The Paris Review, invented the notion of “participatory journalism,” wrote books, helped to foster an American literary culture and was a pitchman for everything from video-game consoles to
- Thu May 23 - Mon May 27
Voyage to Italy: movie review
- Rated as: 5/5
- Critics choice
After watching his turn in All About Eve as a slimy ingénue-manipulating theater critic, how is it possible to imagine George Sanders in an eight-year marriage (even a lousy one) to Ingrid Bergman? Some sort of tragic deal must have been struck before this story starts. In any case, there they
- Fri May 24 - Mon May 27
LGBT Movie Night: Sassy Pants
- Critics choice
- Free
Sip margaritas, feast on tacos and take in a cool movie at this weekly outdoor screening.
- La Gringa Taqueria 800 Grand St, between Bushwick Ave and Humboldt St, 11211
- Thu May 23
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay: movie review
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
You may know him as a droll, poker-faced presence in Paul Thomas Anderson and David Mamet movies, but Ricky Jay’s been stealing the show long before he had a film camera trained on him. This renowned sleight-of-hand artist and magic-history expert began his illusionist apprenticeship at age four,
- Thu May 23
