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

Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…

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

Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…

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

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

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

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

“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…

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

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

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

The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…

When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…

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

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

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

“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…

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

Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…

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

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

Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…

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

Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…

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

In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…

Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…

For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…

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

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

Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…

Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…

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

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

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

The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…

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

Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…

The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…

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

Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…

“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…

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

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

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

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

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

The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…

There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…

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

Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…