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After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…

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

The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…

Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…

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

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

Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…

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

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

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

Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…

Director Wade Allain-Marcus’s “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a remake…

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

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

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

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

There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…

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

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

The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…

“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…

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

“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…

Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…

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

When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…

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

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

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

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

“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…

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

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

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

The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…

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

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

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

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

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

Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…

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

“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…

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

If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…

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

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

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

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

Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…

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

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

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

I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…

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

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

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

There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…

Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie?   The trilogy…

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

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