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Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…

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

One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…

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

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

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

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

Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…

Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…

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

From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…

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

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

Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…

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

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

One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…

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

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

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

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

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

“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…

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

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

The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…

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

Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…

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

When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…

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

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

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

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

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

Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…

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

The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…

If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…

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

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

The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…

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

It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…

I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…

The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…

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

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

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

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

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

In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…

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

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

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

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

“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…

After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…

“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…

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

Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…

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

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

The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…

“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…

It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…

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

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

At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…

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

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

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

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

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

Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…

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

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

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

“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…

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