While not traditionally associated with the genre in the strictest sense, Robert Zemeckis has always indulged in the tropes and affects of horror even…
Though the vast majority of Robert Zemeckis’ films are family-friendly, it’s also easy to find cruelty and blatant sexuality in nearly all of them,…
Spin Me Round, which bafflingly sidelines its most intriguing performer halfway through, ultimately offers little more than a light subversion of European vacay romcoms.…
The Killer is a shallow retread of already shallow ground and sunk by the blank slate of a “hero” at its core. As he did…
The Deer King is beautiful to look at and occasionally charming, but its underdeveloped plot gets in the way of any pleasures and makes for…
Gone in the Night is a slog undone by its own structural conceit, confining its compelling material to flashbacks and riding a wave of dull…
By the time Chor Yuen’s Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan released in 1972, the image of wuxia in Hong Kong cinema had changed…
Flux Gourmet has a few tasty morsels, but it mostly offers glimpses at the more adventurous filmmaker that Strickland used to be. The films of…
Offseason is an undeniably slick film, but one too encumbered by bad aesthetic impulses and a too-shabby framework. Thirty minutes into Offseason, Marie Aldrich (Jocelin…
A spy thriller about a curious subject — the power struggle to replace the Grand Imam of al-Azhar — Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven…
La Jauría, the debut film of Colombian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido, is set deep in the jungle at a strange prison camp for boys,…
There Are No Saints is for exploitation heads only, a warmed-over rehash that excises much of Schrader’s heady themes in favor of bland bloodshed.…
In ultimately providing too many answers to its excessive plotting, A Chiara extinguishes some of its more troubling and intriguing possibilities. A gangster film from…
The Worst Ones, the debut film from Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, opens on interviews with the young French people Flemish film director Gabriel…
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers needs rescued from the Mouse House, which has here flattened the meta-reboot into a flavorless work of IP regurgitation.…
Summer of Changsa is an exercise in useless misery that feels lifeless from start to finish. Having premiered three years ago, all the way back…
The Takedown is inoffensive as a buddy cop comedy, but runs into trouble with its reductive neoliberal political invocations. Louis Leterrier’s The Takedown, a…
Bubble is an altogether gentler anime product for Araki, aiming for the emotional stakes of films like Your Name, but is slight to the point…