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“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…

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

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

Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC,…

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

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

When Alan Rickman portrays an egomaniacal, preening, heartless SOB, he seems to…

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

When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…

One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…

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

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

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

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

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

Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…

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

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

For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…

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

Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…

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

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

A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…

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

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

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

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

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

“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…

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

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

Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…

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

“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…

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

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

The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…

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

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

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

Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…

When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…

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

“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…

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

Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…

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

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

Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…

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

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

You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…

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

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

There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…

Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…

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

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

Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…

It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…