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

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

The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…

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

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

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

“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…

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

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

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

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

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

Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…

Some memories are too painful for us to carry day to day.…

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

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

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

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

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

Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…

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

Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is…

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

Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…

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

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

When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…

I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…

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

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

Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…

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

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

In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…

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

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

Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…

“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…

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

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

Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…

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

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

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

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

Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…

We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…

When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…

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

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

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…

As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…

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

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

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

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

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

Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…