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

Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…

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

“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…

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

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

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

I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…

I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…

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

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

Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…

The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…

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

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

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

Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…

Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…

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

Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…

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

“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…

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

In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…

You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…

Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…

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

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

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

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

You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…

In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…

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

When Alan Rickman portrays an egomaniacal, preening, heartless SOB, he seems to…

There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…

One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…

Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…

The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…

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

“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…

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

When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…

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

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

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

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

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

The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…

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

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

The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…

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