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

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

“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…

New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…

Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…

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

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

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

Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…

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

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

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

“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…

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

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

The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…

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

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

I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…

Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…

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

In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is…

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

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

“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…

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

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

The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…

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

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

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

“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…

Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…

Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…

With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…

Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…

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

The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…

“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…

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

If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…

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

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

The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…

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

This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…

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

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

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

When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…

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

Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…

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

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

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

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

Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…

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

Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…

“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…

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

J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…

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

There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…

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

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

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

In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…

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

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

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

The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…

‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…