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“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…

Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…

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

Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…

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

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

It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…

Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…

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

The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…

There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…

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

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

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

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

Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…

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

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

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

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

“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…

How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…

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

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

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

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

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

In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…

Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…

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

“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…

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

In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…

The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…

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

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

When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…

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

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

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

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

There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…

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

The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…

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

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

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

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

The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…

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

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

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

It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…

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

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

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

Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…

We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…