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

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

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

Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…

Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…

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

The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…

Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…

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

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

Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…

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

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

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

“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…

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

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

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

Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…

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

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

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

Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…

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

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

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

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

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

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

The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…

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

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

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

“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…

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

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

From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…

There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…

Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…

Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…

There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…

As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…

“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…

The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…

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

The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…

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

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

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

Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…

I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…

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

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

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

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