The President’s Wife” is most concerned with uplifting its lead lady in all her schemes, sarcasm, and competence, and this it ...

The rest of the movie trails after Riley as she works up the nerve to do what the audience (and, eventually, its surrogate) ...

For Coogler, the scope, twists, and turns of the “Sinners” were all a part of his curation process. “I wanted the movie to feel like music and to have an aggressively dynamic range. To me, “Sinners” ...

We’ve seen a lot of Sherlock Holmes variations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories debuted way back in 1887, and it seems like every few years now, we get a new take on the master logician. The CW is ...

“#1 Happy Family USA” is a biting, insightful, and clever social animated satire, perfect for Youssef’s fanbase. In the age ...

A Minecraft Movie” is a perfectly calibrated light entertainment. At certain points, it reminded me of that mid’-80s run of ...

From there, “The Rehearsal” travels down a rabbit-hole of social anthropology, trying to solve the problem that plagues ...

In “ The Ugly Stepsister ,” an impressively gruesome feature debut from Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt (now in theaters), the titular character is Elvira (Lea Myren), the eldest child of ...

Blichfieldt's "burn it all down" approach creates turbulence and upset while walking over very well-trod ground.

A horror film set in the 1980s with a synthesizer score is nothing new. But “Dead Mail,” the second feature from directors Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy, manages to find a fresh angle on the nostalgic ...

A dizzying, life-affirming anthem about how it’s never too late to find your way home in the arms of your lover, even if you may have lost your way.

The latest film by David Cronenberg is his most personal in decades. Written after the death of his wife of 43 years, it’s ...