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How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…

Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…

Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…

When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…

In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…

Some memories are too painful for us to carry day to day.…

“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie.   The core of…

The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…

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

People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…

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

“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…

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

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

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

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

There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…

In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…

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

Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…

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

Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington never takes the easy road, even when he’s…

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

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

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

In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is…

“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…

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

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

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

Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…

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

Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…

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

“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…

At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…

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

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

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

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

Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into…

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

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

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

Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…

The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…

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

A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…

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

There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…

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

There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…

“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…

“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…

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

In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…

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

Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…

Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…

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

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

Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…

Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…

Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…

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

After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…

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

When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…

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

Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…

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

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

“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…

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

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

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

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

For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…

For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…

A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…