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

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

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

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

Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…

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

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

Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…

It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…

There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…

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

“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…

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

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

“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…

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

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

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

In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…

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

After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…

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

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…

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

Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…

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

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

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

“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…

New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…

The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…

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

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

“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…

The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…

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

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

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

For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…

A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…

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

Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…

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

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

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

“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…

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

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

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

From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…

In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…

There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…

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

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

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

There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…