Justin Chang
'Crimes of the Future' is a dystopian thriller that cuts to the heart
Justin Chang says there's a cool elegance and a disarming playfulness to this movie that pulls you in, even (or especially) at its most grotesque moments.
'Top Gun: Maverick' is ridiculous. It's also ridiculously entertaining
The three screenwriters of 'Top Gun: Maverick' have taken the threads of the original and spun them into an intergenerational male weepie: a dad movie of truly epic proportions.
'Memoria' is a marvelously strange sonic detective story
Justin Chang calls Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton, a sonic detective story.
Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate
Based on an autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux, Happening unfolds over several weeks in the life of Anne, a 23-year-old literature student in the French town of Angoulême, who discovers she's pregnant after a brief fling.
'Petite Maman' is the best — and most surreal — family movie you'll see in a while
Céline Sciamma's beautiful movie tells the story of a young girl who loses her grandmother.
'The Northman' is a brutal revenge story marked by violence, vengeance and vastness
Mostly set in 10th-century Iceland, The Northman tells the story of a Viking prince who sets out to avenge his father's death at the hands of his uncle — a legend that inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet.
'Nitram' is a deeply unsettling portrait of an Australian mass shooter
Nitram, starring Caleb Landry Jones, dramatizes the events leading up to the worst mass shooting in Australia’s history.
There's a multiverse of roads not taken in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
Justin Chang says for all its cosmic craziness, Everything Everywhere All at Once has a simple emotional message: It's about how the members of this immigrant family learn to cherish each other again.
'Deep Water' is a disjointed take on an unhappy couple's open marriage
Director Adrian Lyne's comeback after a 20-year absence is one of the selling points of Deep Water, his new adaptation of a 1957 Patricia Highsmith novel.
Nothing feels fresh in this grim retread of 'The Batman'
Though Robert Pattinson is terrific playing the young Bruce Wayne as the most troubled of souls, The Batman comes across as an overly familiar blockbuster, populated by recycled characters.