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‘Abruptio’Rent or buy it on major platforms.Horror movies with puppets: It’s a nutty category with a better track record than you’d think, with “Magic” and “Saw” among its rewarding entries.But those films...

In 1969, the British comedy writer and performer Michael Palin, then building a career out of being extremely silly, did something utterly sensible: He quit his 40-cigarettes-a-day smoking habit and began keeping...

The Malaysian authorities quietly presented the director Amanda Nell Eu with an ultimatum: They would submit her film “Tiger Stripes” to the 2024 Academy Awards only if scenes they deemed inappropriate were...

The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we’ll select three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent docs and more — that will...

The Zucheros bring a great deal of imagination to the task, and the sheer audacity of the movie is enough to make it worth watching, even if, at times, the gadgets’ sentimental...

To bet the farm, or not to bet the farm. That is the question in “Green and Gold,” something of a shaggy dog story “inspired by true events,” according to a title...

A lakeside getaway becomes a battleground for couples in this fast, furious and exceptionally fun horror-comedy.

Ferrell plays Jim, a single dad in Atlanta whose daughter, Jenni (the always-hilarious Geraldine Viswanathan), announces she’s getting married to her college sweetheart Oliver (Stony Blyden). A widower since Jenni was a...

Once upon a time in Australia: Three schoolgirls and their teacher vanish in broad daylight while touring a prehistoric landscape. Peter Weir’s 1975 film “Picnic at Hanging Rock” epitomizes the idea of...

‘Pearl’ (Feb. 15)Stream it here.The second, and finest, of the three collaborations between the writer-director Ti West and the actress Mia Goth (preceded by “X” and followed by “Maxxxine”) is this 2022...