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

In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…

I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…

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

The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…

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

The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…

Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…

I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…

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

Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…

Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity,…

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

You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…

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

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

“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…

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

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

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

The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…

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

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

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

Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…

When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…

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

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

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

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

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

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