Glenn Kenny
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‘Migration’ Review: Is It a Road Trip if You Have Wings?
An animated feature written by Mike White (“The White Lotus”) stars Awkwafina, Elizabeth Banks and Kumail Nanjiani as birds, but it never fully gets off...
‘Immediate Family’ Review: Unpacking a Musical Kinship
The session musicians who helped create the soundtrack of 1970s pop step into the spotlight in the director Denny Tedesco’s documentary.
‘Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer’ Review: A Guide to the Filmmaker’s Work
This documentary examines Herzog’s oeuvre and celebrity influence.
‘Silent Night’ Review: On the First Day of Christmas, Kill.
John Woo’s latest is as violent and merciless a revenge thriller as you can imagine.
‘Genie’ Review: Melissa McCarthy, Granting Unlimited Wishes
Melissa McCarthy grants unlimited magical requests in this holiday fantasy film.
‘Thanksgiving’ Review: Gobble, Gobble, Gasp
From a fake genre trailer comes a full horror meal, courtesy of Eli Roth.
‘Journey to Bethlehem’ Review: No Room at the Inn? Try the Multiplex
It’s no “Home Alone” or “Jesus Christ Superstar,” but it does have Antonio Banderas as a song-slinging Herod and Lecrae as a quavering Angel Gabriel.
‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ Review: 50 Years of Off-Kilter Rock
Toby Amies’s documentary dives into the history of the British progressive rock band King Crimson and its chief disciplinarian, Robert Fripp.
‘Old Dads’ Review: Bill Burr Rails Against Modern Life as a Dad
A curmudgeon, starting fatherhood late, has lots to say about the world.
Jamie Foxx in a Lively Courtroom Drama
Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones deliver bravura performances in this Maggie Betts film about a funeral-home proprietor in financial trouble.