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“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…

How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…

When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…

The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…

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

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

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

When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…

For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…

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

He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…

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

There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…

You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…

The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…

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

The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…

“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…

Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…

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

There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…

I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…

“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…

The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…

Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…

A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…

Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie?   The trilogy…

Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…

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

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

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

“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…

“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…

Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…

Released in the spring of 2020, Jeff Chan’s anti-police sci-fi action film…

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

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

Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…

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

Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity,…

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

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

It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…

“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…

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

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

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

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

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

It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…

“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…

Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…

“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…

Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC,…

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

In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…

Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…

Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…

Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…

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

Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…

The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…

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

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

“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…

One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…

Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…

“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…

Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…

“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…

I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…

Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…

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

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

Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…

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

There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…

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

Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…