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A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…

“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…

“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…

Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…

“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…

Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…

Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…

“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…

Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…

A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…

Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…

You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…

The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…

Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…

Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…

It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…

“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…

When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…

Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…

In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…

It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…

At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…

“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…

The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…

J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…

The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…

Director Wade Allain-Marcus’s “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a remake…

There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…

I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…

It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…

“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…

If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…

“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…

“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…

The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…

Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…

Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…

“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…

I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…

The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…

Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…

The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…

Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…

Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…

Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…

One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…

Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…

Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…

Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…

The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…

Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…

The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…

It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…

Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…

A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…

Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…

I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…

In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…

We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…

The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…

One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…

“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…

“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…

Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…

Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…

From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…

The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…

Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…

Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…

The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…

The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…

Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…

“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…

“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…

“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…

You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…

The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…

Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…

When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…