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

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

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

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

Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…

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

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

Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…

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

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

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

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

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

Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…

Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…

The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…

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

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

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

How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…

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

For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…

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

If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…

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

“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…

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

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

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

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

In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…

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

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

What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…

“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…

“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…

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

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

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

At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…

When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…

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

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

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

“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…

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

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

Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington never takes the easy road, even when he’s…

Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…

A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…

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

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

“STAX: Soulsville USA” is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label’s…

The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…

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

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

Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…

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

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

“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…

Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…

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

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

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

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