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One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…

There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…

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

It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…

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

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…

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

When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…

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

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

“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…

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

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

The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…

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

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

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

In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…

I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…

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

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

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

Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…

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

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

The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…

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

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

Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…

The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…

You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…

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

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…

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

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

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

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

If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…

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

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

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

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

Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…

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

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

The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…

Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…

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

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

Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…

In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…

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

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

“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…

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

There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…

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

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