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

Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…

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

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

Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…

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

At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…

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

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

“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…

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

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

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

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

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

In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…

Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…

Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…

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

Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…

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

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

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

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

Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…

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

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

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

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

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

There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…

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

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

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

“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie.   The core of…

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

The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…

“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…

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

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

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

Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…

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

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

The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…

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

Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…

At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…

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

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

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

“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…

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

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

“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…

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

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

When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…

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

You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…

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

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

We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…

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

Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…

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

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

The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…

Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…

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

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

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

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