Balthazar succeeds because of the chemistry between its leads, and that Balthazar himself is just weird and obnoxious enough to be likable.

A sweetly earnest new documentary. … I suspect it’s Reynolds’s humility–his awareness of how little he knows about the gay experience, and his willingness to learn–that keeps a film in his thrall from feeling focused on the wrong story.

Its ability to teach uncomfortable lessons about sex in a wildly entertaining way is impressive.

BlacKkKlansman is a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth. It’s an alarm clock ringing in the midst of a historical nightmare, and also a symphony, the rare piece of political popular art that works in all three dimensions.

It’s the kind of movie that, if you give yourself to it, you’ll love.

It’s wild and singular, often beautiful, a feast and feat of self-definition through verbal dexterity. It’s shaking with laughter, teeming with insights and tense as hell when the police roll up.