After suffering through last year’s wildly self-indulgent, overly serious Disobedience, I was ready to write off any and all “artistic but...

I’ll say one thing for Crawl, the new gator caper clawing its way into theaters this weekend: It’s rather snappily paced. Clocking in at an easy,...

Back in 1982, an independent filmmaker named Jenny Bowen made a movie called Street Music, which centered around the working-class long-term...

As a big fat blockbuster superhero movie opening July Fourth weekend, Spider-Man: Far from Home doesn’t quite work. But perhaps that’s because...

Friends, critics, countrymen, I come to offer faint praise for Ophelia, not to bury her. See? Lifting from several of Shakespeare’s greatest works...

You know him — there’s one of him in every circle of loose acquaintances: the guy (or gal or nonbinary pal — gender is irrelevant here) who has...

There’s something different about Chucky in the new Child’s Play remake. Originally birthed as a very creepy-looking killer doll possessed by the...

Who gets to make country music? Who gets to define what’s authentic and what’s appropriative? These questions have dogged alt-country — itself...

Well, folks — we’re now batting two for two when it comes to summer comic book movies and their (wildly superficial) attempts to dismantle the...

Jim Jarmusch’s films are frequently populated by richly drawn characters who move through the world at a pace that could generously be described as...

Taking a cue from Disney — which makes sense, given the Mouse’s involvement here — writer-director Simon Kinberg jarringly opens Dark Phoenix...

If you live in L.A. and have writer friends connected to the TV world, you’ve likely heard phrases like “diversity hire” bandied about by...

Look, we’ve got to get one thing out of the way here. If you go into Ma expecting incisive commentary on American racial relations mixed into your...

If there’s one thing Godzilla: King of the Monsters makes abundantly clear, it’s that we’ve collectively warped our definition of the word...

The Souvenir — British filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s haunting semi-autobiographical fourth feature — takes its title from a painting Hogg was taken...