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

Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…

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

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

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

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

There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…

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

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

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

It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…

Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…

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

“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…

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

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

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

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

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

Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…

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

For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…

Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…

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

Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…

The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…

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

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

If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…

Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…

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

He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…

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

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

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

This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…

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

In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…

When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…

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

It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…

Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…

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

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

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

“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…