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In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…

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

Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…

If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…

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

Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…

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

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

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

“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…

“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…

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

There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…

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

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

John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…

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

“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…

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

You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…

I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…

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

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

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

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…

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

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

“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…

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

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

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

For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…

Director Wade Allain-Marcus’s “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a remake…

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

“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…

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

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

“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie.   The core of…

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

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

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

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

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

I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…

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

“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…

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

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

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

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

Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…

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

Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…

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

“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…

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

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

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

The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…

It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…

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