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A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…

Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…

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

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

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

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

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

If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…

The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…

On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…

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

Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…

Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…

Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…

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

Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…

I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…

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

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

Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…

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

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

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

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

“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…

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

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

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

“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…

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

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

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

The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…

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

Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…

Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…

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

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

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

“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…

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

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

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

The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…

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

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

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

“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…

Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…

When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…

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

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

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