The essence of Maggie Smith’s greatness as an actor was in her timing. She could be extravagantly physically expressive, ...

It does get frustrating when you’re watching a giant-sized pirate drama that so regularly swings from perfunctory to ...

The latest on Blu-ray and streaming, including Inside Out 2, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Despicable Me 4, and a Criterion release ...

For Gotham cinephiles, the New York Film Festival has its annual launch on the last Friday of September (the 2024 edition runs Sept. 27-Oct. 13). For critics, journalists and certain industry folks, ...

Though I suspect the folks behind it would dislike this term, the movie is pretty unabashedly a teaching tool, aimed at a ...

"Amber Alert" works, sometimes, as a thriller, but it has serious aspirations. It wants to "say" something. These two things ...

For all its investigation of rifts in reality and parallel universes, The Universal Theory provides proof only of the truth’s ...

An interview with the star of Shudder's post-apocalyptic horror-thriller about fight scenes, Adam and Eve, and the nuances of terror.

For a film with so many memorable scenes, Larisa Shepitko’s “The Ascent” (1977) feels shamefully neglected. While Soviet war ...

Created by Erin Foster and based loosely on her own life, “Nobody Wants This” centers on Joanne (Kristen Bell), who co-hosts ...

A documentary about centenarian who started the modern wellness movement to screen at the Chicago International Film Festival ...

A very different recklessness, and a much bleaker tone, seeps into every frame of Ted Kotcheff’s “Wake in Fright,” back at ...