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When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…

When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…

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

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

“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…

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

In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…

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

Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…

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

Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…

Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…

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

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

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

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

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…

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

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

“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…

There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…

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

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

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

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

If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…

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

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

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

Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…

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

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

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

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

The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…

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

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

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

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

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

“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…

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

“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…

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

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

The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…

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

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

Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie.   The core of…

We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…

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

In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…

The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…

The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…

Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…

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

A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…

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

When Alan Rickman portrays an egomaniacal, preening, heartless SOB, he seems to…