After being released from a detention center, Aishe, an undocumented Uyghur immigrant, moves to New York with the promise of leaving everything that haunts her behind.
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‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Review: A Quiet, Unseen Gem of Contemporary American Cinema
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‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Runs Headfirst Into a Televised Nightmare
A desperate man enters a deadly reality show where survival means outrunning professional killers—and every moment alive is worth cash. Starring Glen Powell and Josh Brolin.
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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Review: A Welcome Light Touch in the ‘GoT’ Universe (HBO)
A young hedge knight and his mysterious squire travel to a tournament seeking a living, only to have a simple act of decency against a cruel prince spiral into a deadly test of honor that will quietly shape the future of Westeros.
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‘Twinless’ Review: An Uneasy Dark Comedy About the Fear of Being Alone
In this dark comedy, two twins who have each lost their respective siblings strike up a friendship marked by secrets and complications. Starring Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney.
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‘A Private Life’ Review: Jodie Foster Turns Detective in a Noir-Tinged Psychological Puzzle
A detached American psychiatrist living in Paris becomes emotionally unmoored after the death of one of her patients, leading her down a maze of hypnosis, wartime memories, and personal secrets as she begins to suspect that the apparent suicide may, in fact, be murder.
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‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ Review: A Familiar Magic Act with a New Generation
Ten years after its last trick, the franchise returns with old Horsemen, new illusionists, and an increasingly tangled web of deceptions—fast, absurd, and powered more by conviction than logic.
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‘Viet and Nam’ Review: A Hypnotic Romance Haunted by History (MUBI)
This drama focuses on a love story between two young men who work together in a coal mine and on the search for the body of one of their fathers, who died in the war. Available on MUBI.
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‘The Rip’ Review: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Face Temptation in Joe Carnahan’s Crime Thriller (Netflix)
When a routine police operation uncovers millions in hidden cash, loyalty fractures and suspicion turns violent in a tense crime thriller about greed and betrayal. Streaming on Netflix from January 16.
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‘Agatha Christie: The Seven Dials’ Review: A Cozy Mystery Turned Serial Thriller (Netflix)
A period mystery in which a suspicious death and a missing clock pull an unlikely heroine into a dangerous investigation. Starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman. Streaming on Netflix from January 15.
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‘A Useful Ghost’ Review: When a Vacuum Cleaner Becomes a Ghostly Lover
A widower reconnects with his dead wife when her ghost returns in the form of a talking vacuum cleaner, triggering an absurd yet melancholic chain of events that drifts from supernatural comedy into an unexpected meditation on love, grief and class.


