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

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

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

One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…

In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…

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

Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…

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

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

Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…

“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…

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

The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…

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

In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…

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

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

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

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

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

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

The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…

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

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

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

Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…

Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…

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

Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…

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

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

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

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

At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…

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

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

On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…

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

Both drawn-out and deceptively simple, the trippy French comedy “Yannick” re-imagines a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…

“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…

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

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