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“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…

Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…

A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…

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

“STAX: Soulsville USA” is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label’s…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…

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

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…

Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…

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

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

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

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

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

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

The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…

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

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

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

This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…

One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…

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

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

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

The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…

Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…

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

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

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

We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…

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

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

For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…

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

A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…

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

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

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

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

An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…

Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…

Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…

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

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

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

Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…

Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…

Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…

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

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

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

The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…

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

A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…

On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…

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

‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…

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

A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…