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

Released in the spring of 2020, Jeff Chan’s anti-police sci-fi action film…

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

Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…

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

Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…

“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…

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

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

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

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

When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…

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

“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…

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

Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…

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

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

A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…

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

Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…

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

Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…

How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…

Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…

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

Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…

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

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

There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…

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

Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…

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

“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…

Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…

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

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

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

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

Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…

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

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

Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…

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

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

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

“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…

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

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

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

With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…

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

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

Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…

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

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…

Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…

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

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

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

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

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

I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…

The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…

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

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

It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…

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

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