A very unusual dispatch from a very unusual Toronto International Film Festival.

The Netflix thriller has enough colorful characters and convoluted plotting for a limited series. But that messiness just makes it richer.

Rent-A-Pal is technically set in 1990, but this throwback thriller is a reminder of how that turn-of-the-decade year was very much still the ‘80s,...

HBO Max’s “Unpregnant” plays like a road comedy version of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” approaching similarly serious subject matter...

Disney’s latest live-action remake (available at premium pricing on Disney+) stumbles a bit in the transition, but the new film’s fresh (and...

Charlie Kaufman’s adaptation of Iain Reid's novel is a mind-bending and melancholic experience.

In the latest batch of VOD releases from the margins, Hugo Weaving tackles Shakespeare, Maisie Williams robs a house, and Pauly Shore drops a...

The comedy franchise’s belated new entry is lightweight but delightful, allowing its stars to flex their comic muscles while exploring middle age,...

Random Acts of Violence isn’t the cleanest or cleverest of horror movies, but it displays a grindhouse ambition that’s worth paying attention to....

How can we know Nikola Tesla? The 19th-century Serbian-American inventor was a formative figure in the advances of electricity – but he was not a...

In this month’s fringe VOD releases, ghosts and filmmakers find love, bad things happen in escape rooms and wildlife sanctuaries, and a haunted...

Boys State begins with a famous quote from George Washington’s farewell address about the potential danger of political parties, warning the...

For a movie about an alien that orally falls out of a human’s mouth every night and feasts on the brains of fear-ridden people, Sputnik left me...

Simon Rich is an extremely gifted satirist. The former SNL writer is also the mastermind behind the FX cult comedy Man Seeking Woman and the TBS...

With a skill that would impress even its writer protagonist, I Used to Go Here excels in its efforts to show, not tell. In just its first five...