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

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

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

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

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…

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

Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…

It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…

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

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

A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…

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

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

We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…

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

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

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

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

Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…

It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…

Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…

Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…

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

Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…

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

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

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

2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…

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

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

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

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

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

A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…

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

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

Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…

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

Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…

“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…

The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…

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

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

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

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

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

A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…

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

Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…

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

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

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

The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…

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

The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…

A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…

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

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

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

It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…

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

He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…

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

Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…

“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…

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

In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…

Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…

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

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

It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…

If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…

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

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

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

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

Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into…

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

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