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

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

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

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

You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…

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

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

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

Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…

“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…

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

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

Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…

When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…

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

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

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

Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity,…

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

Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…

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

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

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

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

I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…

Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…

John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…

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

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

For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…

Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…

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

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

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

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

Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…

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

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

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

Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…

Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…

John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…

One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…

“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…

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

Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…

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

We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…

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

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

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

“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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