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

Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…

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

When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…

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

“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…

“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…

Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…

When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…

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

The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…

A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…

“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…

There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…

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

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

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

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

“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…

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

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

Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…

Some memories are too painful for us to carry day to day.…

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

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

When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…

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

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

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

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

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

The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…

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

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

Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…

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

When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…

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

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

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

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

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

Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…

Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…

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

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

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

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

“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…

In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…

Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…

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

There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…

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

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

In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…

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

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

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

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

Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…

Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…