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

If you take a step back from the realistic locations and terse…

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

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

“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…

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

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

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

The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…

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

Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…

The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…

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

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

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

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

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

The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…

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

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

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

It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…

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

Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…

In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…

“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…

The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…

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

“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…

When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…

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

Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…

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

There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…

A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…

I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…

There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…

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

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

What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…

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

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

“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…

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

There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…

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

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

Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…

A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…

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

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

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

In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…