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

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

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

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

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

Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…

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

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

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

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

The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…

If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…

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

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

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

It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…

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

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

Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…

In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…

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

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

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

A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…

Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…

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

The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…

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

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

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

Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…

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

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

I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…

New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…

Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…

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

The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…

I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Both drawn-out and deceptively simple, the trippy French comedy “Yannick” re-imagines a…

Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…

There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…

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

How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…

Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…

What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…

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

Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…

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

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

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…

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

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

Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…

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

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

I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…

Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…