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June 19, 2024328
Treasure
The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…
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June 21, 2024489
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024322
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024381
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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June 20, 2024334
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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June 20, 2024328
You Can’t Run Forever
J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…
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June 20, 2024325
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…
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June 20, 2024327
What can you really do about it if the world ends later tonight?
“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…
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June 20, 2024346
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…
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August 23, 2024672
The Becomers
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…
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August 2, 2024627
Rebel Moon – Director’s Cuts
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…
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June 20, 2024356
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
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June 20, 2024334
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 28, 2024410
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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June 20, 2024347
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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June 21, 2024450
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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August 22, 2024695
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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August 9, 2024559
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…
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June 20, 2024313
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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July 26, 2024529
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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August 9, 2024641
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 21, 2024484
Chestnut
For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…
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August 8, 2024437
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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June 20, 2024496
The Kitchen
A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…
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June 20, 2024327
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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June 20, 20241,042
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…
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June 19, 2024324
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 20, 2024316
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 20, 2024334
No more than three hostages allowed on most trips
Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…
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June 19, 2024307
This Closeness
In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…
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August 14, 2024556
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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June 20, 2024315
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024325
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 20, 2024320
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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July 12, 2024463
Made in England: The Films of Power & Pressburger
At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…
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June 20, 2024311
Black Barbie
“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…
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June 28, 2024474
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024387
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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June 20, 2024333
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
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June 28, 2024552
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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July 16, 2024571
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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June 20, 2024483
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 20, 2024492
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 20, 2024366
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 20, 2024312
Maestra
Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…
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June 20, 2024323
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 20, 2024338
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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August 16, 2024530
The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…
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June 20, 2024335
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…
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June 20, 2024464
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…
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June 19, 2024493
Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot
In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is…
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June 20, 2024305
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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June 20, 2024335
It’s Only Life After All
There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…
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June 20, 2024310
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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June 20, 2024324
The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed
I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…
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June 20, 2024313
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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August 6, 2024541
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 20, 2024315
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 20, 2024319
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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June 19, 2024312
Riddle of Fire
“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…
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June 19, 2024335
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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June 20, 2024369
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
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June 20, 2024335
De Niro and Norton in a psychological duel
“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…
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June 20, 2024305
The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…
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June 20, 2024314
Fast Charlie
The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…
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June 20, 2024323
Taking Venice
In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…
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June 20, 2024344
The Seeding
“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…
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June 20, 2024327
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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June 20, 2024318
Destroy All Neighbors
A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…
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June 28, 2024522
Last Summer
With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…
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July 26, 2024545
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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June 20, 2024487
Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…
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June 20, 2024330
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 20, 2024338
Robbing banks is the neighborhood business
There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…
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August 23, 2024727
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-eAT
Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…
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July 4, 2024491
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…
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June 28, 2024586
The Devil’s Bath
When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…
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June 20, 2024368
Art College 1994
It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…
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June 20, 2024304
Lousy Carter
Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington never takes the easy road, even when he’s…
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June 20, 2024342
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…