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

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

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

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

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…

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

The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…

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

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

Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…

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

Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Released in the spring of 2020, Jeff Chan’s anti-police sci-fi action film…

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

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

When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…

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

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

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

Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…

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

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

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

“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…

“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…

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

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

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

“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…

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

How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…

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

The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…

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

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

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

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

Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…

“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…

The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…

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

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

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

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

A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…

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

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

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

After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…

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

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

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

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

Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…

When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…

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

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

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

The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…