“The Invitation,” a brittle, droning excursion into gothic horror, primarily takes place at a manor in the English countryside. The setting is admissible, if unimaginative: the exterior of the estate appears constructed...
Read moreIn this action film from Julius Avery, Sylvester Stallone stars as a sanitation worker who may be a superhero.
Read moreThis limp satire about an Indian villager’s encounter with the movies of Jean-Luc Godard rehashes regressive stereotypes and squanders a potent premise.
Read moreEarlier this year, the San Sebastián Film Festival in the Basque region of Spain, which runs from Sept. 16 to 24, invited Creast to help cut its emissions, said Amaia Serrulla, who...
Read moreThe gray, rainy weather of an early March day was no match for the joy emanating from a rented bungalow on the campus of the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona.Accordion music...
Read moreAlex Pritz’s documentary “The Territory” drops us right onto the front lines of the battle to preserve the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Pritz embeds us with both an Indigenous community under threat,...
Read moreMuch has been made of cinema’s recent vanguard of female superheroes, the crusading women who give as good as they take. But long before Wonder Woman and her Amazonian sisters charged the...
Read moreThe director Halina Reijn narrates a sequence from her thriller featuring Amandla Stenberg and Maria Bakalova.
Read moreIn this action dud, Idris Elba plays a grieving father who takes his kids on a family trip to South Africa, where they meet a very big, very angry lion.
Read moreIn 2009, the writer Glenn Kurtz discovered a badly-degraded three-minute film in the attic of his parents’ Florida home. That film, a kind of vacation home-movie shot in 1938 by Kurtz’s grandfather,...
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