Abel Ferrara brought the vampire story into the urban grit of New York malaise in this low-budget 1995 thriller.
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Our mini-reviews of “Die Alone,” “All You Need is Blood,” “The House From…,” and more of this week’s lesser-known titles for home viewing.
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Claire Denis’s 2009 political drama plays, in many ways, like an especially visceral horror movie.
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This month marks Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday (and next month marks the 124th anniversary of his death) so let’s go back to that brief time when Miramax was in the Oscar Wilde-adapting business.
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Widely sneered at upon its release, Richard Franklin’s 1983 sequel to Hitchcock’s classic holds up just fine on its own terms.
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Sean Baker’s winning streak continues with this delightfully dirty and warmly humanist portrait of sex work, romance, and their occasional intersections.
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Overlooked in Mike Leigh’s filmography, ‘Vera Drake’ is quietly radical in its portrayal of abortion as a mere fact of everyday life.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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L.Q. Jones’s cult adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s Nebula-winning story remains prescient in ways no one could have anticipated half a century ago.
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Our editor-in-chief reports from the 62nd annual NYFF, with mini-reviews of “Blitz,” “Oh, Canada,” “Hard Truths,” “Queer,” “Nickel Boys,” and more.
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This riotously funny 1970 social satire (streaming on Amazon, Tubi, and Plex) showcases star Robert De Niro and director Brian De Palma well before the establishment of their respective personas.
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Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in this would-be weepie from ‘Brooklyn’ director John Crowley.
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