This Anaconda takes only the lightest of jabs at the Hollywood machine.
‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Review: Lotfy Nathan’s Dreary Biblical Fantasy Reins In Nicolas Cage
This biblical fantasy’s dreary, static solemnity invites comparison to Robert Eggers’s work.
‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ Review: Masked Villains Get a Backstory in Perfunctory Sequel
Chapter 2 plays for a while like a needlessly extended epilogue to the first film.
The film plunges us into a world that feels simultaneously naturalistic and otherworldly.
‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: Benny Safdie’s Biopic Is a Prolonged Bout with Déjà Vu
The film follows too closely in the footsteps of John Hyams’s documentary of the same name.
‘Roofman’ Review: Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst Barely Save Polite True-Crime Drama
For better and for worse, the film breezily keys itself to its main character’s demeanor.
‘The Lost Bus’ Review: Paul Greengrass’s Roller Coaster Ride Through the 2018 Camp Fire
The Lost Bus may remind you of ’90s blockbusters like Dante’s Peak. But should it?
‘Sirât’ Review: Óliver Laxe’s Parable Is a Sensorially Rich and Trippy Desert Odyssey
The film is a vivid meditation on human possibility in the face of fate and nature’s power.
‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Vividly Propulsive Period Thriller
The film is fascinated with the ways in which cinema, politics, and personal history co-mingle.
The film mines unnerving tension from the absurdity of its main character’s confinement.
‘It Was Just an Accident’ Review: Jafar Panahi’s Incendiary Thriller About a Quest for Revenge
Panahi’s film is a reflection of his currently fractious relationship with his homeland.
Chuck Russell is certainly committed to making an old-school, effects-laden genre thrill ride.
‘The Ritual’ Review: Not Even Al Pacino Can Save This Bland Serving of Supernatural Hokum
Like any number of Exorcist wannabes, David Midell’s film is a special kind of hell.
‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Review: The Weeknd Leans into Histrionic, Doom-Laden Navel-Gazing
The film is less a work of clear-eyed introspection than a calculated image rebrand.
Baker’s awards darling Anora gets the red-carpet treatment from Criterion.
‘Gunslingers’ Review: The Bright Spot of This Anonymous Western Is, of Course, Nicolas Cage
In the end, though, Cage can only do so much to bring this hastily assembled oater to life.
‘Black Bag’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Spy Thriller Is a Cool Cucumber, but Is That Enough?
Black Bag is the kind of old-fashioned caper that Soderbergh can make in his sleep.
The Visitor turns Teorema’s subtext into scathingly funny text.
Clearly the marketing of Flight Risk’s 4DX theatrical option is an act of overcompensation.
‘Heretic’ Review: Hugh Grant Is Cheeky, and Unbelievably Creepy, as a Deflator of the Faith
The film intriguingly plays with our expectations of who the heroes and villains are.