Movie-CelebRity2000

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

The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…

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

The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…

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

I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…

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

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

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

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

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

“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…

Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…

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

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

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

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

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

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

A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…

A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…

Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…

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

Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…

It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…

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

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

2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…

The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…

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

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

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

Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…

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

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

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

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

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

There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…

In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…

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

More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…

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

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

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

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

In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…

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

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

It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…

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

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

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

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

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

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