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

“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…

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

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

The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…

In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…

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

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

“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…

I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…

The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…

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

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

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

Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…

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

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

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

Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…

Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…

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

If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…

If you take a step back from the realistic locations and terse…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…

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

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

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

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

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

Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…

Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…

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

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

I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…

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

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

Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…

The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…

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

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

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

The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…

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

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

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

Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…

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

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

Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…

The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…

“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…

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

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

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

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

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

“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…

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

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

“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…

At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most…

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

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

Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…

“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…

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

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

A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…