Everybody knows a low-stakes liar. Whether it’s Instagram exaggerations or anecdotes reconfigured to place themselves as the hero, this kind of one-upmanship is practically currency…
If one thing can be said for the award-winning, box office-safe, well-worn road of the biopic, it’s that with the volume of films being made,…
With all the various traumas and psychological afflictions on which character-driven horror has touched in recent years, it was only a matter of time before…
Even in the seemingly endless combinations and reconfigurations of tropes that make up horror B-movies, there occasionally needs to be some new input. Dusty old…
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio takes its well-worn titular tale and manages to make it feel fresh, despite a few incoherencies along the way. In what seems…
Hot on the heels of the year’s earlier release of Katia and Maurice Krafft — Fire of Love — comes Werner Herzog’s tribute to the…
Tranquility is a relative concept — inside a prison, one of the most stressful situations known to man, even the white-knuckle pressures of a professional…
Meet Me in the Bathroom’s winnowed focus turns what could have been a vibrant behind-the-scenes doc into more conventional, surface-skimming fare. Meet Me in the…
The fifth installment in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is “Pickman’s Model,” inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name and directed…
The Stranger’s palpable atmosphere can prove meandering, even if it crafts fascinating and nuanced characters out of its leads’ performances. Set in the bleak Australian outskirts,…
Sidney often teeters into hagiography, but the clear affection that strips the film of balance is also what animates it so vividly. Narrated in large part…
Returning this year for its fourth season is Bill Hader, Rhys Thomas, Seth Meyers, and Fred Armisen’s parody passion project, Documentary Now!, an anthology series…
I’m not sure people entirely remember the film Audition. Like much of his body of work, director Takashi Miike’s breakthrough into global recognition is perhaps…
When I Consume You starts strong and boasts a strong visual character, but it frustratingly trades too heavily in tired horror tropes to land with much…
Mr. Malcolm’s List isn’t the most chemistry-rich Regency rom-com to come along, but its modern undertones and strong ensemble work make it a recommendable entry…
Persuasion tries and fails to hide its thoughtless adaptation instincts and baffling decision-making behind a deluge of modern stylistic flourishes and homages to superior films.…
Wyrm suffers from an imbalance between its two halves, but is otherwise emotionally astute and earns the surreal world it conjures with careful, deeply considered world-building. …
The Score offers some conceptual intrigue, but its vitality as a musical is undermined by source material ill-suited to the form. Based on the music of…
The Black Phone establishes a new high water mark for masked killer horror, singular and effective in its eerie details even if a bit familiar in…
Within the steadily growing niche genre of Jewish horror, there are two key tales that have a hold over the imagination of filmmakers. With a…