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

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

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

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

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

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

After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…

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

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

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

Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…

Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…

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

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

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

Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…

In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…

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

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

The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…

There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…

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

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

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

John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…

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

He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…

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

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

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

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

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

There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…

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

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

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

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

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

Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…

Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…

For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…

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

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

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

In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…

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

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

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

At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…

“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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