A powerful new film from British writer-director Sandra Goldbacher.

The movie is as modestly unpretentious as David O. Russell's "Spanking the Monkey."

A moody picture that's filled from start to finish with camera tricks, unexpected angles and innovative flourishes.

The first Russian musical in more than 50 years, Hipsters is appreciated best as a curiosity.

A ponderous and dreadful film.

The movie often verges on being too much; Brooks' supreme balancing act is to keep it all under control.

A tense, nail-biting thriller featuring powerhouse performances.

As good as both actors are, watching characters sitting around talking gets old. But the film perks up considerably midway through, becoming a taut beat-the-clock thriller as it covers the days just before Bundy’s 1989 execution, the tension lying in whether Ted will fulfill his 11th-hour promise to confess.

Trust never lives up to its snappy opening. Everything is tongue-in-cheek here - yet it's never remotely clear what the point is or what's getting satirized. [16 Aug 1991]

Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny.

Many scenes in Outrage are crisply filmed and stylish enough, as serial assassinations go. But the film doesn't add up to much.

It is, for what it’s worth, a good documentary, though I imagine its true worth and true nature can only be revealed in time. At the starting gate of 2018, we can have no idea how this film will be perceived in 10 years, and maybe we don’t want to know. Then again, maybe we do.

This is an ambitious movie that didn’t come quite together in the editing room.

Those who stuck with the troubled pop icon after his universe shifted from the charts to the tabloids probably will find equal measures of inspiration and heartbreak in the documentary. For everyone else, it's a strange offering.

Whatever the intention, Somewhere, in its odd, detached way, is compelling viewing.

Smile 2, filmmaker Parker Finn’s audacious follow-up to his 2022 breakout hit, “Smile,” delivers all the jump scares, gore and supernaturally plastered-on grins a horror fan can take while also commenting, thoughtfully yet also disgustingly, on the perils of fame.

A fairly wonderful movie about fathers and sons and the mystery of time.

There's a lot of bad hair and incoherent, drug-addled remarks, but inside a minute we get the joke, and it isn't much.

May be the most magnetic, most beautiful and bravest Carmen ever to grace a stage or film set.

Whatever the film's faults, though, it's safe to say that you may never view childbirth in the same way.

A funny movie, but also a serious movie, and — who knows? — maybe an important one.

There are no great surprises, no shocking reveals (except to the characters themselves). But there’s so much to appreciate along the way that it’s a real page-turner.

A big fizzle.

Underneath the seeming blandness of its presentation -- the sparse dialogue, the affectless characters -- there's a ferocious and caustic view of humanity.

July also narrates the film, in voiceover, as the cat, and every time she does, it's a white-knuckle thing. You have to hold on until she stops.

A straightforward, wickedly suspenseful man-versus-nature saga of the type that rarely gets made anymore.

This documentary about men and women performing brutal work tasks for next to no money is full of arresting and eloquent images. It has little dialogue, and little is needed.

The curious thing about this new Cinderella is that every old and familiar element is done beautifully.