In Alexander Payne’s new movie, Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and newcomer Dominic Sessa spend Christmas break together at a New England private school in 1970. Here’s my review.

There are still people griping that Martin Scorsese’s “Killers Of The Flower Moon” is over three hours long. But here are some other things they’ll sit through despite having similar runtimes.

Here’s my review of a new movie starring Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick as vacationers who take a job in a mining town in the Australian outback, only to find themselves surrounded by dangerously toxic masculinity.

Here’s my review of Bill Burr’s new movie, about Generation X fathers trying to navigate a world of Millennials, including their younger wives.

Here’s my review of Martin Scorsese’s new movie (with Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, and Robert De Niro) about an indigenous community made rich by oil, then devastated by greedy white men.

Here’s my review of the latest from writer-director John Carney (“Once,” “Sing Street”), who specializes in small stories about people whose lives are connected by music.