In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but...
“In space, no one can hear you scream,” went the tagline for the original “Alien” in 1979, a terrifying thought on multiple levels.
There may indeed be a scientific ratio...
Finally, a movie for everyone who read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and wished it had been a comedy.
Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is a farcical twist on an old story that, ...
More than a half century has passed since Ohio National Guard members opened fire on college students during a war protest at Kent State University, killing four students...
Lily Bloom and Ryle Kincaid don’t really meet-cute. On a rooftop in Boston, he announces himself by angrily kicking a patio chair. She’s up there trying to come to terms ...
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: I did not entirely understand everything that happens in “Cuckoo,” a new indie horror in theaters Friday.
This could be more of...
“Harold and the Purple Crayon,” the famed 1955 children’s picture book, is getting the three-dimensional treatment nearly 70 years after its release.
The picture book , ...
In our spoiler phobic culture, movie trailers don’t often offer a lot of information. It’s even dangerous territory for a critic to discuss too many specifics, sometimes ...
Coming of age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but fi...
If one thing is certain about “Deadpool,” it’s that its titular hero, for reasons never explained, understands his place in the world — well, in our world.
Indeed, the ir...
