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Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…

The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…

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

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

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

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

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

“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…

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

New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…

“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…

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

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

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

It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…

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

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

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

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

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

Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…

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

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

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

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

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

The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…

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

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

Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…

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

More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…

From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…

In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…

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

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

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

The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…

Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…

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

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

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

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

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

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

A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…

Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…

When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…

Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…

There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…

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

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

Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…

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

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

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

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

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

The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…

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

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

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

The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…

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

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

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

The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…

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

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

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…

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

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

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