Movie-CelebRity2000

The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…

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

I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…

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

Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…

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

The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…

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

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

In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…

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

In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…

The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…

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

Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…

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

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

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

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

Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…

Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…

If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…

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

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

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

Both drawn-out and deceptively simple, the trippy French comedy “Yannick” re-imagines a…

Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…

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

Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…

“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…

Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…

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

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

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

Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…

Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…

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

Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…

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

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

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

“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…

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

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

Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…

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

How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…

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

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

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

Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…

How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…

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

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

What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…

In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…

While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…

A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…

Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…

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

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

At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…

It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…

When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…

If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…

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

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

“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…

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

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

Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…

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

Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington never takes the easy road, even when he’s…

The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…

“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…

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

If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…

A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…

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