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

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

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

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

In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…

“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…

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

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

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

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

One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…

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

Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…

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

Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…

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

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

The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…

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

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

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

The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…

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

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

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

I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…

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

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

Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…

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

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

An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…

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

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

Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…

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

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

“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…

If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…

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

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

We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…

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

In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…

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

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

Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…

Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…

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

Director Wade Allain-Marcus’s “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a remake…

Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…

I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…

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

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

Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…

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

Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…

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

The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash’s hyperviolent slasher experiment “In a Violent…

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

Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…

It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…

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

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