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“Steal Away” starts with intertitles that announce it as a tale of “two princesses.” The implied fairy tale trappings are appropriate for this metaphor heavy film. Director Clement Virgo…
Terrorism is not exactly a natural fit for screen comedy. Defiantly going where few have gone before — one rare prior example being the bumbling-jihadist satire “Four Lions” 15 years ago —…
Given how few first-person videogames make a successful transition to the big screen, it’s surprising how easy Genki Kawamura‘s “Exit 8” makes it look. But perhaps the key to not losing…
Early in her illustrious career, Spanish director Isabel Coixet broke out internationally with “My Life Without Me,” in which Sarah Polley plays a young mother who conceals the fact that…
How many rebellious movies about ganging up to overthrow the status quo does one need to make before uneasy governments start to put you on some kind of watch list? For Romain Gavras, son…
If you ask Ben Foster, he was born to play the part of a mustachioed, chest hair-baring gangster in the ‘70s set drama “Motor City.” “We had a fabulous wardrobe designer, Amy Roth, who…
Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” captured the Toronto International Film Festival’s highly coveted people’s choice award, bolstering its Oscars chances. Since the Academy expanded the best picture…
The comedy revolution referred to by the title of Nick Davis’s sharp and effusive documentary “You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…” is the one that…
Who knew Vince Vaughn could carry a tune? Turns out, the actor’s been singing right under our noses for years, from the ironic Alanis Morissette cover he delivered in “The Internship” to…
Both an obvious product of ’90s nostalgia and the definitive cure for it, Bobby Farrelly‘s terminally innocuous “Driver’s Ed” can be described as a youth comedy, but whose youth? Though…
It wasn’t meant as a joke when a Hollywood studio cast Nicolas Cage as an emo angel who risks his wings to save Meg Ryan, a mortal with dark thoughts and great hair. But Aziz Ansari must…
Afterlife movies tend to be amiable in a goofy way, one that ends up tamping down the stakes. Once you’ve arrived in the afterlife, you aren’t going anywhere, and you’re not going to die…
“Couture” is a drama set during Paris Fashion Week, starring Angelina Jolie as a character who is fashion world-adjacent — a goth-glam director of hip indie horror films named Maxine…
The Rock as an Oscar nominee? It’s time to get used to the idea. When Dwayne Johnson broke down in uncontrollable sobs during a 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice International Film…
Guillermo del Toro doesn’t just direct monsters — he understands them. The Oscar-winning auteur behind “The Shape of Water” (2017) and “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) has built a career elevating…
Bryan Fuller made a career creating idiosyncratic series like “Pushing Daisies” and “Hannibal,” and has written for many more. Now he’s readying his feature film debut, which is set to…
Having earned raves for bulking up to play the wrestler Mark Kerr in his MMA fighting prime for “The Smashing Machine,” Dwayne Johnson is about to undertake another radical transformation.…
Genki Kawamura’s “Exit 8” is a thriller unlike any other. Based on the 2023 video game, an unnamed protagonist (Kazunari Ninomiya) gets trapped in an endlessly repeating patch of a subway…
Normal is the name of a Minnesota town where things are anything but. Just 1,890 people live in the tiny Midwestern burg, but there must be at least that many guns to go around. The guy…
In “Nuremberg,” Russell Crowe, portly and imposing, with slicked-back hair, a head that seems to melt into his body, and a low-voiced German accent that expresses implacable…
Aziz Ansari is making his directorial debut with the existential comedy “Good Fortune.” But technically, it’s not his first time helming a feature. In 2022, he was halfway through…
Based on the real life of Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson, who takes an exec credit here, “I Swear” is a biopic about a man who came of age in 1980s Scotland at a time when…
Wagner Moura is no stranger to intense roles, but his latest performance in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” may be the one that defines his career, at least to U.S. audiences.…
Jodie Foster takes on her first French-language leading role in “A Private Life,” but she already has her sights set on her next dream project: teaming up with Kristin Scott Thomas in a…
