Schadenfreude is a powerful emotion, but is it strong enough to get you to watch two documentaries on the same subject?…
The first time Samuel L. Jackson appears in Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan’s majestically moody turn-of-the-century…
It’s impossible to make a movie about a militia without at least a faint aroma of the political. It’s not even an…
The Kid Who Would Be King, the English writer-director Joe Cornish’s family-friendly take on the King Arthur legend,…
How much sympathy should one feel for the formerly wealthy? That’s one of many questions barely explored by The…
Replicas, the astonishingly inept new Keanu Reeves vehicle, plays less like a science-fiction thriller than some…
The Intouchables, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s monster hit about the friendship between a quadriplegic white…
Dogs, and animals in general, are one of life’s simplest pleasures. There’s a reason we turn to our pets for comfort…
Rust Creek starts off like any number of films about a beautiful young woman menaced by rednecks in the isolated…
No matter how highbrow horror becomes, there will always be room in the genre for good old-fashioned exploitation. Not…
We’ve been telling jokes about Sherlock Holmes since the beginning. The earliest send-ups of the world’s greatest…
Halfway through Second Act, Jennifer Lopez’s working-class-gal-turned-high-end-beauty-industry-consultant has a…
Robert Zemeckis, the Hollywood fabulist who made Forrest Gump and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, remains a wizard of…
Chronicling the slow, mournful fadeout of great artists: so hot right now. Just a couple of months after The Happy…
Avoid the extended edition of this. Check out the director’s cut of that. Take a machete to the Star Wars universe. The…
Adam McKay’s Vice opens in 1963 in Casper, Wyoming, as the young, puffy, and whoopingly drunk Dick Cheney (Christian…
Destroyer, the latest from The Invitation director Karyn Kusama, is very much in the mold of antiestablishment ’70s cop…
When filmgoers, professional ones included, complain that movies have gotten too damn long, they’re often talking about…
Was the first live-action Transformers movie really long enough ago to qualify for its own nostalgia revisitation?…
If there’s a defining image in the small but remarkable filmography of Barry Jenkins, it’s of someone staring, with…
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