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When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…

This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…

With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…

There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…

There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…

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

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

“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…

Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…

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

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

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

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

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

New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…

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

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

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

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

In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…

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

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

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

I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…

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

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

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

James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…

In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…

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

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

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

I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…

Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…

Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…

It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…

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

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

Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…

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

“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…

The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash’s hyperviolent slasher experiment “In a Violent…

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

“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…

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

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

Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…

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

“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…

Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…

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

Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…

“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…

Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…

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