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

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…

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

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

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

When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…

“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…

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

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

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

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

A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…

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

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

There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…

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

Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…

Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…

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

“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…

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

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

Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…

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

“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…

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

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

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

“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…

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

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

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

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

“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…

In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…

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

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

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

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

Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…

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

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

One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…

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

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

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

“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…

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

Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…

Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…

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

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

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

Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…

It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…

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

The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…

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

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

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

Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…

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

“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…

If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…

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

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

Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…

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

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

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

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

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

The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…