Film

John Powers reviews the new documentary ¡Casa Bonita, Mi Amor! It follows South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone as they renovate a dilapidated, inauthentic, 1970s Mexican restaurant.

Film critic Justin Chang reviews the film "His Three Daughters," starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne.

Justin Chang is a film critic for The New Yorker. He reviewed "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."

Our film critic Justin Chang says "Close Your Eyes" is one of the best movies he's seen this year. It's the first feature in more than three decades from Spanish director Victor Erice, best known for his 1973 classic "The Spirit Of The Beehive." "Close Your Eyes" follows a retired filmmaker trying to solve a mystery surrounding an unfinished production from many years ago. Here is Justin's review.

Director Fede Álvarez is a strong director of action, and he riffs inventively on classic Alien beats. It’s an efficient and reasonably entertaining thriller that traffics more in nostalgia than novelty.

Our film critic Justin Chang recommends the independent drama "Good One," which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and opens in theaters August 9. It's the first feature written and directed by India Donaldson and stars James Le Gros and Lily Collias as father and daughter on a camping trip that goes gradually and suspensefully awry. Here's Justin's review.

In the new Marvel Comics-inspired movie "Deadpool And Wolverine," Ryan Reynolds revisits his role as the wise-cracking antihero Deadpool, while Hugh Jackman returns as the fiercely brooding Wolverine from the "X-Men" films. Our critic Justin Chang says the new movie is as rude and crude as its target audience will want and expect but that it also offers a few nuggets of nostalgia for old-school X-Men fans. Here's Justin's review.

The new movie "Twisters" stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones as two intrepid storm chasers who compete with each other to find the biggest tornadoes. The movie is directed by Lee Isaac Chung, whose previous film, "Minari," was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture. Our critic-at-large, John Powers, says "Twisters" is a pleasurable summer blockbuster, with all the virtues and limitations that phrase suggests.

In the hit thriller "Longlegs," Maika Monroe plays an FBI agent tracking a serial killer with a possible satanic connection. It also stars Nicholas Cage and Blair Underwood. It's the latest from writer-director Osgood Perkins, whose previous horror movies include "The Blackcoat's Daughter" and "Gretel And Hansel." Our film critic Justin Chang has this review.

Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, was in the mood for something different this week. She found it unexpectedly in a novel about plunging deeply into Shakespeare's sonnets. Here's Maureen's review of "Practice," the debut novel by Rosalind Brown.