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

It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…

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

For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…

In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…

Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…

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

In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…

The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…

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

“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…

When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…

“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…

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

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

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

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

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

“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…

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

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

The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…

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

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

“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…

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

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

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

A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…

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

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

The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…

The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…

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

Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…

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

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

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

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

A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…

Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…

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

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

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

Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…

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

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

“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…

In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…

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

Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…

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

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

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

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

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

Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…

Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…

Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…

A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…

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

People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…

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

Released in the spring of 2020, Jeff Chan’s anti-police sci-fi action film…

This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…

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

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

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

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

How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…