New York Times (Editorial Team ) Reviews

Everyone knows professional wrestling is fake. Everyone knows the same about movies. In both cases the eager spectators simultaneously admire the artifice ..  read more

At the beginning of “Yes Man,” Carl Allen is a grouch, a curmudgeon, a wet blanket. His relentless negativity — his job as a loan officer provides him ..  read more

“Seven Pounds,” which reunites Will Smith with Gabriele Muccino (who directed him in “The Pursuit of Happyness”), begins with a series of riddling, ..  read more

Tackling time travel with zero special effects, one location and only four speaking roles requires nerve — and in this case an exorbitant faith in ..  read more

“Dark Streets” has atmosphere coming out its ears, but not much going on between them. Based on a stage musical by Glenn M. Stewart and brought to the ..  read more

Fifty years ago “What Doesn’t Kill You,” a no-nonsense, few-frills crime drama about two losers hustling their way into an early grave, might have ..  read more

The air is thick with paranoia in “Doubt,” but nowhere as thick, juicy, sustained or sustaining as Meryl Streep’s performance as a distrustful nun in ..  read more

Long after we are gone, science fiction movies about our impending extinction will instruct whoever comes next that we were a strange, neurotic species ..  read more

Seasonal Sentiment With Latin Flavoring - The gnarly dead tree in front of the Rodriguez house in Humboldt Park, a working-class Latino neighborhood of Chicago, will not be processed into kindling. ..  read more

Two Unmerrymakers in a Grueling Land of Social Awfulness - Every holiday season, either out of respect for tradition or sheer spite, at least one Hollywood studio is sure to release a drippily sentimental, gratingly ..  read more