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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…

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

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

Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…

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

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

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

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

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

The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…

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

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

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

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

“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…

Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is…

I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…

Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…

If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…

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

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

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

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

There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…

Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…

In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…

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

Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…

Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…

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

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

At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…

Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…

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

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

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

“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…

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

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

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

Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington never takes the easy road, even when he’s…

Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…

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

One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…

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

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

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

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

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

Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…