The grimy history of mania targeting violent art lays the foundations for this adequate movie, but its most interesting ideas are left at the door.

Filmmaker Theo Anthony's work is an abstract, staggering and purposefully overwhelming journey into the tango between perspective and power.

If you're looking for minimal, unpredictable counterprogramming to the blockbuster scale of "The Conjuring 3," "Caveat" will do spooky wonders.

The German filmmaker is back to his deeply melancholic ways, and while his new movie is a tougher paradox to crack, it's mighty rewarding.

Emma Stone slips into Cruella de Vil's high heels in this origin story that is narratively puffed up but occasionally energetic. Just don’t expect to have a much better understanding of the iconic villain.

Though its script gets bogged down in a carousel of people and perils, Robert Connolly’s sun-baked new movie succeeds thanks to its strong sense of emotional fragility and the questions surrounding its lead character.

Mohammed Rasoulof shot his latest project in secrecy, having been targeted by his home country in the past for the revealing stories he tells. It went on to win the Golden Bear in Berlin.

Propelled by engaging performances and refined craft, Robert Machoian’s newest movie recalculates a familiar kind of marriage-on-the-rocks story into an incredibly tense tale.

Originally scheduled for pre-pandemic release, Joe Wright's movie writes itself into a suspenseless corner. It lands on Netflix Friday.

Writer-director Chino Moya's feature debut has some visual flair, but it's in service of familiar ideas and a nonexistant story.

Jason Statham returns to a cold-blooded world of firefights and fistfights, but there's no tangible drama in this crime drama.

Some flashes of personality bookend a largely one-note affair about forgotten and forlorn father figures in this feature directorial debut from Quoc Bao Tran.

Buoyed by producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord’s frenzied oddball energy, Netflix’s newest animated offering finely balances commentary and sheer colorful entertainment.

Nikole Beckwith's smart screenplay balances quirk and steadfast sincerity in her second feature, one that challenges regular genre associations.

If there’s one thing Wheatley excels at, it’s starting from a place of benign normalcy and ending somewhere so irrevocably contradictory you’d think the director had a chronic case of change-of-heart midway through his productions.

The director of "Limitless" and "Divergent" returns with a space-set riff on "Lord of the Flies" that does little to justify its cosmic surroundings.

“Moffie” emerges not as a story centered on the dehumanization of Black South Africans during the apartheid era, but rather on the empathy-starved soil of military boot camp from which hatred so easily sprouted.

Charléne Favier's frosty feature debut covers a broad canvas of emotional consequence via a small-scale, untraditional, ultimately devastating sports story.

“Godzilla vs. Kong” succeeds because it finds compromise between its foes’ enduring pop culture status and the technical calculations (and deep pockets) of modern Hollywood to turn that status into bracing spectacle.

Hong Kong's Oscar contender navigates the degrees of dystopian separation between real-world issues and melodramatic fiction, to middling success.