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“STAX: Soulsville USA” is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label’s…

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

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

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

Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…

The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…

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

A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…

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

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

The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…

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

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

In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…

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

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

The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…

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

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

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

The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…

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

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

The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…

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

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

John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…

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

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

Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…

We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…

The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…

Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…

Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…

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

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

Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…

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

“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…

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

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

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

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

When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…

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

In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…

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

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

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

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

There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…

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

He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…

The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…

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

There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…

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

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

J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…

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

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

“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…

Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…