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

The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…

Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…

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

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

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

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

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

On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…

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

“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…

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

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

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

Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…

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

Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…

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

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

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

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

There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…

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

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

“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…

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

Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…

Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…

Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…

One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…

I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…

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

From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…

Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…

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

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

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

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

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

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

The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…

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

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

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

Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…

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

“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…

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

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

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

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

Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…

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

“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…

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

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

I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…

I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…

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

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

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

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

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

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