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Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…

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

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

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

Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…

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

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

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

Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…

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

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

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

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

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

There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…

Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…

Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…

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

Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…

When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…

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

Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…

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

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

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

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

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

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

The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…

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

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

It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…

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

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

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

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

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

“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…

It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…

“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…

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

Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…

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

Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…

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

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

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

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

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

Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…

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

In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…

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

There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…

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

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

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

“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…

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

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

“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…

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

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

Both drawn-out and deceptively simple, the trippy French comedy “Yannick” re-imagines a…

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

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

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

Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…

Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…

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

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

One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…