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

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

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

Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…

The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…

Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…

Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…

Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…

This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…

Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…

The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…

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

“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…

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

In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…

Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…

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

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

Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…

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

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

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

There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…

When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…

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

Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…

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

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…

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

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

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

After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…

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

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

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

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

Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…

‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…

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

When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…

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

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

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

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

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

The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…

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

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

Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…