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

Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…

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

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

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

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

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

It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…

In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…

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

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

There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…

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

“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…

Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…

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

“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…

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

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

Director Wade Allain-Marcus’s “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a remake…

The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…

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

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

When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…

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

In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…

James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…

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

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

There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…

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

Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…

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

“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…

Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…

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

Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…

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

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

There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…

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

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

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

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

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

Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…

“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…

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

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

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

“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…

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

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

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

In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is…

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

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

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

“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…

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

The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…

After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…

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

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

From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…

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