Kurt Loder
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Movie Review: 'Skinamarink'
The new horror film "Skinamarink" was produced with a $15,000 budget. While striking in technical ways, the results are mixed. → Read More
Movie Review: 'M3GAN'
"M3GAN" is fun from stem to stern, thanks to a slick, funny script. But it's the title role that brings the chills. → Read More
Kurt Loder Reviews 'Babylon'
"Babylon" is a decadent film—and a total chore to sit through. → Read More
Review: 'The Whale' Is a Tearjerker With a Gripping Brendan Fraser Performance
Some may argue that The Whale is really just an old-fashioned weepie, a simple commercial calculation, featuring a likeable protagonist beset by tragic circumstance. → Read More
Movie Review: 'The Good Boss'
"The Good Boss" may not exactly be a belly-laugh comedy, but its humor is sharply on-target. Spanish language film. → Read More
Movie Review: Jordan Peele's 'Nope'
'Nope' is never scary as you would expect from this genre. Which—very sad to say—makes it Jordan Peele's third-best film. → Read More
Movie Review of 'Thor: Love and Thunder'
The fundamental problem with "Thor: Love and Thunder" is its feeling of incompleteness, writes Kurt Loder in review → Read More
Review: Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' Makes a Star of Austin Butler
Tom Hanks at his worst couldn't sink this picture. 'Elvis' easily prevails on the strength of its atmospheric production design, its music, and its often moving performances, → Read More
Review: Top Gun: Maverick
Tom Cruise’s long-delayed return flight. → Read More
Review: Dual and Hatching
Dual Somewhere in the future a woman named Sarah is informed that she has a terminal disease. "What are my... → Read More
Review: Memoria
It would be wrong to say that "slow cinema," as the genre is sometimes called, is simply a pigeonhole for... → Read More
Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once
There's so much going on in Everything Everywhere All at Once—and it goes on so relentlessly, and for so long—that... → Read More
Review: The Batman
PRO: The Batman is a great action movie. Not that there's a lot of action in it—the story's a little... → Read More
Review: Kimi
Zoë Kravitz in Steven Soderbergh’s tough little cyber thriller. → Read More
Review: Moonfall
The new space-disaster movie Moonfall comes with crucial warnings clearly posted. First of all, it's a film by the shameless... → Read More
Review: The 355
Okay, you've got a quintet of action chicks and you need to save the world. What do you do first?... → Read More
Review: Licorice Pizza
Squalls of flak suddenly surround one of the year’s most loveable movies. → Read More
Review: Nightmare Alley
Bradley Cooper might not be anybody's first pick to star in a latter-day film noir. He seems too warm and... → Read More
Review: House of Gucci
If The Godfather had been played for laughs, the result might have been something like House of Gucci. Ridley Scott, the director, presumably had a lot of → Read More
Review: C'mon C'mon
Kids say the darnedest things. You'll be talking to one and suddenly they'll come up with something like, "Why are you alone?" or "Why aren't you → Read More