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

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

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

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

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

There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…

Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…

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

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

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

A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…

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

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

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

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

James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…

In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…

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

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

The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…

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

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

Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…

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

When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…

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

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

“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…

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

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

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

The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…

Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…

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

From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…

“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…

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

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…

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

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

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

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

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

Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…

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

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

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

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

“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…

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

John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…

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

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

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

“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…

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

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

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

Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…

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

When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie?   The trilogy…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…

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

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