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

The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…

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

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

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

Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…

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

“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…

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

The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…

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

It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…

“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…

In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…

“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…

The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…

I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…

As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…

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

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

J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…

Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…

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

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

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

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

There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…

John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…

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

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

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

It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…

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

“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…

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

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

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

“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…

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

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

There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…

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

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

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

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

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

A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…

Some memories are too painful for us to carry day to day.…

“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…

“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…

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

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

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

Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…

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

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

“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…

Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…

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

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

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

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

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

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