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

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

Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…

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

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

Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…

A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…

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

The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…

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

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

Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…

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

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

John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…

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

Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…

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

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

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

“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…

The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…

If you take a step back from the realistic locations and terse…

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

In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…

Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…

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

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

Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…

The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…

“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…

Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…

Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…

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

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

Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…

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

“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…

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

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

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

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

A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…

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

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

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

Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…

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

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

Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…

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

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

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

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

The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…