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

“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…

There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…

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

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

The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…

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

The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…

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

“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…

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

Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…

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

“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…

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

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

Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…

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

“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…

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

If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…

When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…

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

Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…

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

How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…

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

I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…

Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…

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

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

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

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

With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…

Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…

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

“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…

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

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

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

I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…

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

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

Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…

Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…

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

Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…

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

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

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

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

Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…

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

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

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

Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…

Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…

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

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

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

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

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