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

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

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

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

“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…

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

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

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…

John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…

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

Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…

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

In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…

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

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

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

It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…

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

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

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

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

“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…

In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…

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

In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…

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

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

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

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

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

Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…

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

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

When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…

In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…

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

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

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

When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…

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

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

Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…

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

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

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 notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…

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

Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…

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

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

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

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

When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…

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

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

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

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

Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…

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