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

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

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

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…

There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…

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

Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…

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

The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…

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

In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…

Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…

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

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

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

Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…

Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…

“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…

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

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

It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…

Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…

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

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

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

The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…

Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…

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

As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…

‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…

Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…

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

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

How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…

The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…

When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…

Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…

There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing…

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

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

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

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

There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…

When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…

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

Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…

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

“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…

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

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

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

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

Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…

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

At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most…

A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…

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

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

An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…

“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…

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