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Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie?   The trilogy…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…

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

While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…

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

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

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

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

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

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

It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…

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

It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…

When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…

The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…

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

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

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

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

“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…

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

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

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

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

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

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

This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…

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

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…

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

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

Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…

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

Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…

“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…

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

Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…

“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…

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

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

Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…

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

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

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

“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…

Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…

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

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

The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…

“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…

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

At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most…

I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…

Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…

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