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Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…

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

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

“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…

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

Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…

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

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

Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…

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

When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…

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

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

“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…

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

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

In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…

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

“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…

You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…

Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…

Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…

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

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

Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…

Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…

Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into…

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

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

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

“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…

The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…

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

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

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

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

The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…

A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…

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

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

Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…

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

One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…

“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…

“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…

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

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

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

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