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

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

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

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

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

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

I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…

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

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

The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash’s hyperviolent slasher experiment “In a Violent…

The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…

Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…

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

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

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

One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…

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

“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…

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

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

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

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

In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…

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

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

Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…

Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…

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

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

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

How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…

It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…

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

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

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

Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…

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

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

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

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

People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…

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

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

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

Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…

There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…

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

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

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

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

For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…

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

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

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

Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…

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

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

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…

Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…

John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…

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

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

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

Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…

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