NYT critics highlight 10 new movies this week

The New York Times on Jan. 30, 2026, presented a roundup of 10 new movies its critics are talking about this week, including titles such as The Moment, The Love That Remains, A Poet and The Wrecking Crew. From our review: “The Moment” — a mockumentary starring Charli XCX and directed by Aidan Zamiri — “lights on substantive subjects throughout, yet partly because it’s about one individual’s ostensible struggles rather than the larger system, its bite is toothless.

That’s presumably by design, but who knows?” The piece lists the film as in theaters and marks it as a Critic’s Pick. Also noted as Critic’s Picks are Janus Films’s The Love That Remains, which the review says “unfolds without any obvious narrative stakes” while rewarding viewers with visual beauty and mounting surrealism, and A Poet, described as “the very funny and occasionally tragic tale” of a failing artist set in Medellín.

The Wrecking Crew, a buddy action film starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa, is praised for its actors’ ease in the genre: “Momoa and Bautista simply seem in their element.” The Wrecking Crew is listed as available to watch on Prime Video. Other entries include Send Help, called “part survival horror-comedy, part female revenge fantasy” and identified as clearly Sam Raimi’s work, and Moses the Black, a drama that the review finds tonally overwrought and compares to Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq in its uneven mixture of spiritual revelation and nonsensical subplots.

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