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Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…

With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…

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

There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…

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

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

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

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

In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…

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

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

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

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

Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…

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

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

Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…

“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…

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

Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…

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

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

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

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

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…

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

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

In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…

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

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

Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…

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

Released in the spring of 2020, Jeff Chan’s anti-police sci-fi action film…

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

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

Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…

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

In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…

“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…

Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…

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

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

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

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

“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…

“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…

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

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

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

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

The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…

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

If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…

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

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

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

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

“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…

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