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

Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…

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

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

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

Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…

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

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

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

Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…

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

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

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…

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

The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…

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

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

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

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

The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…

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

The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…

Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…

Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…

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

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

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

The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…

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

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

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

The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…

Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…

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

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

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

There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…

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

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

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

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

Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…

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

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

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

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

Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…

A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…

James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…

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

What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…

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

‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…

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

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

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

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

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

The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…

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

You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…

A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…

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

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

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