As a proponent of the "shut up and watch the movie" school of thought, I have a special fondness for films that actively encourage silence. The tense...

It is a time-honored tradition that teens in movies make pacts with one another to lose their virginity, but seldom are those teens female girls of...

Ready Player One is set in a future where people spend most of their time in a virtual-reality world called OASIS that allows them to play games and...

You remember, of course, how a breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean produced a gateway through which extra-dimensional Godzillas entered our...

Not only are the SXSW programmers an astute bunch of film enthusiasts who scour the globe for the finest in independent cinema … they also really...

“Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird,” explains Kayla (Elsie Fisher) in one of the YouTube videos that frame Bo Burnham’s Eighth...

On Saturday, March 10, every film that screened in The Paramount - SXSW’s premier venue in downtown Austin – was directed by a woman. It was...

Love, Simon is the first film about a gay teenager's coming out ever distributed in wide release by a major studio. We've seen mainstream films with...

Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, first published in 1962, is one of the most beloved young adult novels not to have already been turned into a...

Eventually, the cold and pitiless Red Sparrow is about a young Russian woman who becomes a spy and gets tangled up with a CIA operative running a...

What we know at the beginning of Annihilation is that a lighthouse was struck by a projectile that fell from the sky (seldom a good omen) and that...

Black Panther is a bold entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not (just) because there are hardly any white people in it but because there's almost...

The Winchester Mystery House is a real place in San Jose, Calif., built in 1883 and expanded upon by its owner, Sarah Winchester, who married into...

Christian Gudegast, writer of A Man Apart (2003) and London Has Fallen (2016), makes his directorial debut with Den of Thieves, and it's everything...

If you missed Paddington three years ago, you missed one of the most thoroughly delightful children's movies in recent memory, about an...