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At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…

Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…

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

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

Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…

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

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

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

Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…

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

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

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

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

“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…

“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…

In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…

Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…

There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…

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

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

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

J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…

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

“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…

I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…

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

“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…

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

John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…

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

Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…

Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…

Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…

“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…

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

“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…

Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…

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

The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…

Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…

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

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

Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…

When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…

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

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

Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…

In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…

When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…

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

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

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

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

Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…

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

“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…

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

“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…

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

I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…

There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing…

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

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

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

Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…

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

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