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

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

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

Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…

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

In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…

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

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

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

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

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

“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…

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

Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…

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

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

I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…

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…

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

This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…

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

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

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

Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…

“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…

“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…

“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…

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

If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…

“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…

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

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

When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…

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

Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…

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

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

Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…

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

“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…

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

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

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

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

Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…

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