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Shirkers Any true film lover remembers their angst-ridden, teenage experimentation with making their own film. I almost want to forget ...

With only a couple months left in the movie-going season, some of the studio's biggest potential knockout performances are still en rout...

Suspiria I loved everything about Luca Guadagnino's re-imagining of Argento's late 70's horror staple, from its sculptured ex...

As Above, So Below From the Dowdle brothers,  "As Above, So Below" is a pleasantly diverting piece of archeological horro...

Ghostwatch Reading about the history of the 1992 BBC mockumentary is almost as fun as watching the trailblazing film known as ...

The Nun Part of what makes James Wan's "The Conjuring" universe so nerve-wrecking is the seemingly endless fray of demonic ...

There's a harsh juxtaposition of technique towards the end of David Lean's maligned 200 minute 1970 drama "Ryan's Daughter...

The Little Stranger A diffuse haunted house story, Lenny Abrahamson's "The Little Stranger" works because of the creaky, atm...

Filmmaker Christian Petzold's cinema has always been a female-centric one. Portraying strong women in various modes of genre, ...

The King Eugene Jarecki's "The King" is a progressive and invigorating rolling roadshow of the halls and faces of America. O...

Sicario: Day of the Soldado The most disappointing aspect of Stefano Sollimo's sequel to Denis Villeneuve's critically acclaimed 2...

1) Black Water (2018)- New Dolph Lundgren/Van Damme 'actioner' that opens in most places next week. Hugely entertaining. A film th...

Robert Greene's "Kate Plays Christine" is a jangled web of theories and diversions that not only brilliantly upends the very d...

Straight Shooting (1917) **½- Ford’s first still available film, most interesting for its milieu and yes, some shots of people in and out o...

Chappaquidick As soon as Jason Clarke (as Ted Kennedy) mutters "I'm never going to be president" in the backseat of a car im...

I never attended a boarding school. I never possessed the philosophical angst of young Danny (Noah Taylor). And I certainly never had a girl...

Red Sparrow Francis Lawrence's "Red Sparrow" is just the type of spy film we deserve right now. Visually beguiling and arid...

In the latter half of the twentieth century, cinema's attraction to the heroic romanticism and ultimate fatalism of the Wild West outl...

1. Princess Cyd (2017)- Had I made time for this in '17, it most certainly would have placed pretty high on my 'best of the year...

One of my favorite films of all time is Jean Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows" (1969). A masterpiece of murky atmosphere g...