The Bad Batch: Cannibals Across The Line
Ana Lily Amirpour’s latest feels like a beautiful, apocalyptic audition for the next ‘Mad Max’
Wonder Woman Is A Straight-Up Knockout
An excellently directed, action-adventure superhero movie with feminism at its heart
Alien: Covenant: We’re Not OK, Computer
Ridley Scott’s latest in the franchise is a beautiful, sprawling epic that doesn’t really tell us anything new. And that’s just fine.
Sleight: The Reluctant, Kinda-Sorta Superhero
J.D. Dillard’s supernatural, genre-bending, coming-of-age thriller
Suddenly Infamous: Casting JonBenét And Rodney King
This Friday, Netflix premieres two experimental films about notorious ’90s crimes, accidental fame, and the ‘villains’ behind the headlines
Free Fire Fires And Misses
For all its shoot-’em-up, popcorny-summer-movie fun, Ben Wheatley’s testosterone spree shows how low men can go
The Lost City Of Z: An Adventure Movie As Chilling As The Amazonian Fog
The story of real-life explorer Percival Fawcett steps outside of summer blockbuster season
Colossal: The Return Of Hathaway
Nacho Vigalondo’s monster comedy is the best self-aware joke you’ll watch all year
Life, Or Something Terrifying Like It
Director Daniel Espinosa’s clinical space movie is an unemotional and cruel punch in the gut
T2 Trainspotting: Even In Edinburgh, Dead Babies Grow Up
Danny Boyle sat down with MTV News to talk gentrification, his years-long fight with Ewan McGregor, and how ‘cinema is vampiric’
Kong: Skull Island: An Old-School Giant Having The Time Of His Life
‘Kong’ is a charming, popcorn-chomping adventure that could fit in at any movie theater in 1973
Raw: She’s A Maneater And She’ll Chew You Up
Julia Ducournau’s beautiful film about terrible horrors is a coming-of-age allegory about a girl discovering her powers — and developing a taste for something she never thought she could like
A Perfectly Lovely Catfight At Brunch, With Anne Heche And Sandra Oh
Anne Heche and Sandra Oh on dressing themselves, dressing each other, and playing women who truly don't give a damn
Before I Fall: You Make Me Feel Like I’m Living (And Reliving) A Teenage Nightmare
Ry Russo-Young’s teen melodrama is an almost-captivating ‘Mean Girls’ meets ‘Groundhog Day’
Logan Brings Heart And Horror To X-Men
James Mangold’s ‘Logan’ is a phenomenal, throat-slashing, gut-stabbing superhero movie
Get Out: The Call Is Coming From Inside The Rich, White, Suburban House
Jordan Peele’s haunting first horror movie taps into the bleak fear of seeing a disaster coming from a mile away, and still being unable to escape
The Great Wall Gives History The Middle Finger
Full of historical inaccuracies, lizard-looking aliens, and a white savior to boot, Yimou Zhang's blockbuster is a looney epic from outer space
Cat Fancy: Kedi And The Celebrity Stray Cats Of Turkey
Director Ceyda Torun’s charming documentary follows seven stray cats from Istanbul and the humans who interact with them
50 Shades Darker: Bad To The Boner
The second installment in the ‘50 Shades’ trilogy is so brilliantly bad it’s genius
John Wick: Chapter 2: Fantastic Fights And Where To Find Them
The action movie action movies desperately need
The LEGO Batman Movie: All Those Wonderful Toys
The best version of Batman is 2 inches tall and wrapped in shiny, plastic, multimillion-dollar blockbuster packaging
The Space Between Us: There’s No Life On Mars
Despite a worthy attempt from Asa Butterfield, this tone-deaf teen romance has zero gravity and zero thrills
The Comedian: It’s Not Easy Being Mean
Robert De Niro’s insult comedy cringe-fest trips over its own clown shoes
Sundance Diary, Day 4: The Day The FBI Came To Park City
Three documentaries on Syria and a day in Sundance’s virtual-reality tent