Who doesn’t like the Toy Story movies? The fifth installment of Pixar’s first franchise is now in theaters, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s an entertaining family adventure that mostly sticks to the same formula as its predecessors.

The Netflix documentary "Queen of Chess" tells the story of the first woman chess grandmaster, Hungary’s Judit Polgár, Dan Webster says.

The Marked Woman brings a Spanish sense of suspense to a subject taken straight from the headlines, Dan Webster says.

Unlike most Hollywood horror film “Backrooms” preys simply on our inherent fears of the unknown – until it doesn’t, Dan Webster says.

Paul Rudd plays a struggling musician whose work is stolen by a pop star in Power Ballad, the latest from Once director John Carney. Nathan Weinbender says the movie’s tune is a familiar one, but it’s extremely likeable nonetheless.

Nathan Weinbender reviews two new movies from important international directors: Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, from Romania, and Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3, from Germany.

Blue Heron is director Sophy Romvari’s hushed, intimate memory of being an immigrant family in Canada and of her own brother’s fracturing mental health. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a potent study of time and loss, and it’s now playing at the Magic Lantern.

As the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival draws to a close, Nathan Weinbender returns with some of his highlights from a week in the dark.

“I Swear” is a look at the life and struggles of a man with Tourette’s Syndrome and the ignorance surrounding it, Dan Webster says.

A hangout comedy set in 2011 Montreal, Chandler Levack’s Mile End Kicks follows a burgeoning music writer in a community of wannabe rock stars and artists. Nathan Weinbender says it uncannily captures its time and place, like a millennial version of Almost Famous.