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

“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…

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

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

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

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

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

Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…

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

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

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

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

Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is…

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

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

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

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

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

A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…

“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…

Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…

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

“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…

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

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

In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…

“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…

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

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

Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…

An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…

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

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

More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…

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

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

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

When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…

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

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

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

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

The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…

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

Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…

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

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

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

Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…

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

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

For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most…

Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…

We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…

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

The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash’s hyperviolent slasher experiment “In a Violent…

Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…

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

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

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

It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…

Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…

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

Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…

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

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

The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…

“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…

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

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