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

“STAX: Soulsville USA” is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label’s…

Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…

The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…

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

“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…

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

In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…

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

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

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

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

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

“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…

Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…

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

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

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

Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…

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

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

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

John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…

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

Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…

Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…

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

With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…

Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…

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

“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is…

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

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

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

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

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

How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…

Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…

“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…

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

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

The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…

Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…

“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…

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

“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…