Kurt Loder is a New York writer who also hosts the SiriusXM interview show True Stories. His most recent book is a film-review collection called The Good, the Bad and the Godawful.
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Review: Wrath of Man and The Columnist
Guy Ritchie returns (with Jason Statham, wisely) and a Dutch woman discovers the ultimate cure for online menacing.
Review: Judas and the Black Messiah
Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield revisit the horror of a civil rights battlefield of the 1960s.
Reviews: Love and Monsters and J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius
A good teens-and-creatures movie, and a deep dive into a glorious fake cult
Review: Possessor: Uncut
Director Brandon Cronenberg finds a terrible beauty in this terrific sci-fi horror film.
Reviews: The Nest and No Escape
Jude Law and Carrie Coon in top form, and a little bit of torture porn lite.
Reviews: Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine and Jazz on a Summer's Day
Let there be musics.
Reviews: Babyteeth and You Should Have Left
Eliza Scanlen in a sharp Australian romance and Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried in a familiar haunted house.
These 10 Underappreciated Movies Make for the Perfect Quarantine Viewing Experience
Offbeat options for waiting out the apocalypse.
Review: Big Time Adolescence
Pete Davidson in a sweet and surprisingly smart coming-of-age movie.
Review: Devs
Nick Offerman and Alison Pill in Alex Garland’s wild sci-fi mystery.
Reviews: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and The Assistant
Women on top and trapped at the bottom.
Review: The Rhythm Section
Blake Lively and Jude Law overqualified for an unexciting spy flick.
Review: Little Women
Greta Gerwig directs Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh in a dazzling new take on the classic tale.
Review: Uncut Gems and Bombshell
A new kind of Adam Sandler flick and a predictably Hollywoodian Fox News takedown with a major star turn by Charlize Theron.
Review: Marriage Story
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are unforgettably good in this devastating (and funny) divorce chronicle.
Review: Knives Out
Schemes abound in this ridiculously complicated country manor murder mystery.
Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Some quality time with Tom Hanks’s Mister Rogers.
Review: Charlie's Angels
Kristen Stewart in another reboot of the venerable action franchise.
Review: One Child Nation
A quietly horrifying look back at China’s disastrous, 35-year-long national birth-control program.