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

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

Released in the spring of 2020, Jeff Chan’s anti-police sci-fi action film…

For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…

In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…

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

Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…

When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…

Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…

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

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

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

“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…

Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…

Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…

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

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

“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…

When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…

Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…

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

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

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

In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…

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

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

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

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

“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…

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

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

At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…

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

Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…

“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…

Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…

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

Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…

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

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

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

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

Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…

Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…

Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…

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

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

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

Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…

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

The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…

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

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

I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…