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

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

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

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

One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…

You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…

When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…

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

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

Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…

It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…

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

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

“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…

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

“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…

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

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

I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…

A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…

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

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

“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…

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

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

“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…

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

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

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

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

There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…

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

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

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

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

Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…

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

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

“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…

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

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

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

The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…

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

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

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

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

When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…

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

When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…

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

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

When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…

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

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

At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…

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

With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…

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

The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…

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

Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…

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

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

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

I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…

Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…