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Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…

“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…

“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…

We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…

Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…

Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…

The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…

In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…

As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…

Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…

It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…

It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…

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

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

“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…

Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…

The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…

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

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

“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…

In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…

Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…

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

“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…

How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…

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

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

A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…

“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…

“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…

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

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

“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…

Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…

“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…

If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…

The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…

John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…

When Alan Rickman portrays an egomaniacal, preening, heartless SOB, he seems to…

There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing…

Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…

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

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

The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…

Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…

The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…

Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…

“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…

With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…

If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…

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

There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…

In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…

John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…

In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…

The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…

I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…

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

“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…

There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…

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

For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…

Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…

Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…

Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…

I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…

Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…

Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…

The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…

Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is…

Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…

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

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

Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…

When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…

It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…

It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…

More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…