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After an enormously successful debut with Get Out, Jordan Peele delivers another bold film with Us, and seems to be creating a whole new genre.
Everybody Knows may be a little overlong, but it’s frequently compelling due to a powerhouse performance by Penélope Cruz.
In Video Dispatches we cover recent home video releases. This week, My Name is Julia Ross (1945), So Dark the Night (1946), and Mikey And Nicky (1976).
The Last Walk, a short film by Anna Hoover, is a heartbreaking, but beautiful tribute to the land for which it captures.
Female Human Animal is a unique experiment into pushing the boundaries of what is considered to be fact or fiction.
Greta is an acquired taste that will frustrate some viewers while others will revel in its campy absurdities.
A movie mirror-image to last year’s First Reformed, Woman at War is a strikingly beautiful story of one woman’s desire to do good.
A mature, eerie, and effective coming-of-age story, The Changeover is a definite standout when it comes to young adult films.
If you looked past the gaping plot holes and equally detestable jump-scares, there is a scare or two to be had in The Prodigy.
Happy Death Day 2U is like watching a million ideas hit the screen at the same time, progressively moving itself to shakier ground before losing any sense of narrative necessity.
Many will enjoy watching Gina Rodriguez in a silky red dress armed with an AR-15 – she hits what she is aiming at, but Miss Bala misses its mark.
Cold Pursuit is a rare English-language remake that actually works; a solid genre entry that knows what it wants to do, and does it damn well.
Although the film ultimately posits that there is far more going on than meets the eye, Braid has more than outworn its welcome.
Polar is as by-the-book as an action film can be, and that book isn’t even a very interesting one.
Dan Gilroy has stepped out of his comfort zone with satirical horror Velvet Buzzsaw – and the results are mixed, to say the least.