It’s one of the year’s most interesting and very best films, a wildly entertaining and unexpectedly profound experience.
Featuring the filmmaker’s trademark dialogue, outrageous humor and an extraordinary lead performance from John Malkovich, it’s another first-rate entry in McDonagh’s filmography.
This latest historical drama from writer-director Paul Greengrass features impressive medieval production design, visceral battle sequences and an excellent ensemble cast.
Chastain delivers a committed dual performance, and some briefly glimpsed creature effects are genuinely disturbing, but almost everything else in this perplexing supernatural thriller falls spectacularly flat.
Like Sony’s Spider-Man-less villain movies, it struggles to reconcile its sympathetic protagonist with the comic-book supervillain he’s inevitably destined to become.
A spiritual successor to his 2000 cult classic Loners, this sharply observed ensemble comedy may be the filmmaker’s most accomplished work as director.
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This wonderfully inventive survival thriller from turns an outlandish premise into a gripping, meticulously detailed adventure, bolstered by some of the year’s most impressive creature effects.
A man inherits a dilapidated country estate and becomes entangled in its deep-seated mysteries in Wirbel, the feature debut of writer-director Tomáš Hubáček now playing
This middling comedy benefits from an appealing performance by Owen Wilson in the lead but fails to generate many laughs—nor does it capitalize on being set at the titular festival.
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Michael Showalter’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller promises a throwback to the glossy erotic thrillers of the 1990s, but spends most of its nearly two-hour runtime as a dull Rebecca retread.
This hardened, effective drama packs an undeniable emotional punch, even if the use of CGI animals contrasts sharply with the film’s finest attribute.
While it may not have the colorful characters or elaborate backstory from the Capcom video games, it nails the survival-horror feeling of playing them.
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Inhabitants of a Ruthenian village on the eastern border of Czechoslovakia are forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for the Starina reservoir in
Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson are sensational in this wonderfully perverse feature that probes the murky intersection between sex and violence.
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This somber film is not a hagiographic portrait of one of the country’s leading experts in Japanese studies but a quietly devastating warts-and-all look at a life slowly decimated by alcoholism.
This initially striking Ridley Scott sci-fi flick turns increasingly dull thanks to leaden pacing and an underdeveloped script lacking in narrative momentum.
Competent direction from Jean-François Richet and bone-crunching, blood-spurting fight scenes deliver the goods for Statham aficionados.
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This well-directed sequel from writer-director Jacob Chase (2020’s Come Play) boasts some outstanding scares early on, but settles into scenes of rote exposition that drain the horror.
Essentially The Purge for rom-coms, this high-concept comedy from director Will Gluck (Anyone But You) has an irresistible setup, slick execution and two enormously charismatic leads.