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

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

The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…

It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…

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

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

“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…

It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…

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

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

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

In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…

The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…

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

As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…

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

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

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

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

One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…

After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…

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

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

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

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

Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…

Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…

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

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

Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing…

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

Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…

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

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

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

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

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

Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…

The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…