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

When Alan Rickman portrays an egomaniacal, preening, heartless SOB, he seems to…

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

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

The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…

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

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

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

“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…

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

It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…

“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie.   The core of…

“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…

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

Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…

Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…

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

In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…

Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…

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

“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…

“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…

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

The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…

The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…

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

People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…

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

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

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

Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…

Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity,…

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

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

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

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

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

In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…

In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…

“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…

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

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

“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…

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

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

In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…

Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into…

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

“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…

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

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

Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington never takes the easy road, even when he’s…

One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…

“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…

Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…

A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…

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

Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…

When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…

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

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

The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…

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

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

Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…