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When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…

2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…

Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…

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

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

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

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

“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…

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

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

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

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

What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…

I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…

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

“STAX: Soulsville USA” is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label’s…

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

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

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

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

“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…

I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…

The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…

Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…

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

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

The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…

There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…

When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…

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

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

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

It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…

I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…

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

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

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

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

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

The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…

After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…

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

For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…

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

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