Justin Chang

Steve McQueen's new film centers on four women who come together to pull off a $5 million robbery. Critic Justin Chang says as gripping as it is, Widows never feels like mere escapism.

In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, film makers Joel & Ethan Coen gleefully embrace the conventions and clichés of the genre, but to strangely melancholy — even troubling — effect. Justin Chang has a review.

Director Lee Chang-dong's film centers on two young men and the woman who brings them together. Critic Justin Chang calls Burning the most absorbing — and enigmatic — new movie he's seen all year.