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

“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…

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

Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…

In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…

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

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

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

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

There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…

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

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

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

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

Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…

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

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

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

In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…

There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…

“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…

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

“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…

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

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

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

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

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…

The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…

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

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

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

The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…

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

“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…

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

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

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

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

Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…

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

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

Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…

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

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

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

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

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

When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…

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

The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…

One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…

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

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

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

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

Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…

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

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

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

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