In Tyler Spindel’s feature, a young couple receive a surprise visit from the bride’s criminal-minded parents just before their wedding. Like the chicken and the egg, it’s hard to know what came first for the new Adam Sandler-produced Netflix feature, The Out-Laws: Was it

Premiering at Tribeca, Alison Ellwood’s straightforward biography centers on the singer/activist’s unconventional talent. In her professional life, Cyndi Lauper has been a kaleidoscope of personae: ’80s pop hitmaker; New Wave fashion guru; proto-Third-Wave feminist; LGBTQ activist; Broadway composer and lyricist; chameleon powerhouse

The interstellar gang is back in the third installment of the hugely popular Marvel franchise starring Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista and Zoe Saldaña. Cinematic superheroes have been going through a rough patch lately. Already this year, both Shazam and Ant-Man

Based on the same material that Sean Penn would later use for ‘The Pledge,’ the 1990 film is receiving its first U.S. release. With the great auteur Béla Tarr no longer directing movies, the newly restored Twilight, by one of

Pierre Földes’ animated feature interweaves six stories by the celebrated Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The recent films Drive My Car and Burning, two exquisite screen adaptations of Haruki Murakami’s fiction, delve into unsettling enigmas and longings, spun around performances of

The latest from the ‘Twilight’ director is about a woman who travels to Italy for a funeral only to reluctantly become a crime boss. The creators of the new film starring Toni Collette aren’t exactly shy in revealing their high

Ariela Barer, Sasha Lane, Kristine Froseth and Lukas Gage star in Daniel Goldhaber’s film about a group of environmentalists plotting to detonate bombs at an oil refinery. Climate scientists and activists have repeatedly said that we’re past the stage of

The latest from the ‘Twilight’ director is about a woman who travels to Italy for a funeral only to reluctantly become a crime boss. The creators of the new film starring Toni Collette aren’t exactly shy in revealing their high

Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key and Seth Rogen are among stars providing the voices for this new screen adaptation of the iconic Nintendo franchise. After the debacle that was the 1993 live-action Super Mario Brothers movie adaptation, the

Cage plays Dracula and Hoult the titular long-suffering servant in Chris McKay’s New Orleans-set film co-starring Awkwafina. It seemed great on paper. Nicolas Cage as Dracula? It’s a role he was born to play; it’s a wonder it hasn’t happened

Directed by Tony Tost, the recent SXSW selection also stars Paul Walter Hauser and Simon Rex. The theft of a valuable Native American artifact triggers a cascading series of violent crimes in Americana, a revisionist Western set in present-day South

The two stars return to solve another case in the streamer’s follow-up to 2019’s hugely popular comic thriller. To quote the evil Noah Cross in Chinatown, “Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” The

The actor plays a landscape painter who hosts a popular public television show in Brit McAdams’ comedy inspired by longtime PBS star Bob Ross. If you’ve seen promos for Paint, you’ve probably figured out that Brit McAdams’ comedy starring Owen

In the latest entry in Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s series, a mother and her children must fight the demonic forces in their apartment. In Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin shows the depth of his twisted mind and a commitment

Director Alexandre O. Philippe walks the actor through his career in a documentary that covers everything from ‘Star Trek’ to ‘Boston Legal’ to his trip into space. Philippe is a master of inquisitive cinema essays, examining films like The Exorcist,

Director Ondi Timoner (‘Last Flight Home’) unveiled her latest documentary, an investigation into the toxicity of our current moment, at SXSW. In a jam-packed 102 minutes, The New Americans aims to explain a string of recent Internet-fueled financial misadventures; to somewhat update

In her debut documentary premiering at SXSW, Lagueria Davis examines the origins and implications of Black Barbie dolls. It is part of American lore on race and progress: In the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark set out to study the

The ‘Argo’ actor/director stars alongside Matt Damon and Viola Davis in this feature about the creation of Nike’s Air Jordan shoe. Ben Affleck’s Air operates in a respectful and deeply reverential register when it comes to its subject, his family

The official description for Netflix’s new documentary CHAOS: The Manson Murders invites viewers to “Explore a conspiracy of mind control, CIA experiments and murder.” The trailer for the Errol Morris-directed film, which is based on Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring’s

Raquel “Raq” Thomas is not molded after your typical TV queenpin. She isn’t an unassuming victim who suddenly finds herself rising to power in a bid to save herself from degradation, to lift her family out of financial ruin or

So far in 2025, I’ve seen shows about doctors in urgent care, cannibals stranded in the woods, superheroes battling the forces of evil, vast governmental conspiracies that go all the way to the top. None has stressed me out half

Everything is not sunny in Philadelphia on the small screen this week. Both Apple TV+’s Dope Thief — review coming Thursday — and Peacock‘s Long Bright River set stories of blue-collar murder and misery against the relative hopefulness of the

Persistence sure does pay off. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck have been gracing screens since 1935 and 1937, respectively, but it took until now for them to star in their own full-length film, the first completely animated Looney Tunes feature

For a while, Apple TV+‘s adaptation of Dennis Tafoya’s Dope Thief fits into one of my favorite subgenres of crime fiction: Longtime friends, bonded by shared trauma, engage in petty crime to survive, only to find themselves caught up in

In his acidic 1931 satire, Black No More, the writer George Schuyler imagines a world where Black people can undergo an experimental surgery to become white. The depigmentation procedure, invented by an oily scientist, becomes extremely popular. People are eager

It’s safe to say that films dealing with the Holocaust have a higher bar than most. The subject is so momentous that any efforts not reaching a certain level of quality can come across as exploitative. Lior Geller’s independent feature

“I would describe my aesthetic as Old World trash and treasure,” says Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), a few minutes into Idiotka. “She’s milking a cow at five, but she needs to be at the ballet at 5:10. Loves a bargain bin.” As

This portrait of a relationship between a woman with an eating disorder (Courtney Eaton of ‘Yellowjackets’) and a boy with co-dependency issues (Thomas Mann) won two awards at SXSW. Actor Brittany Snow (the Pitch Perfect franchise, Hairspray) just about nails

Kit Zauhar writes, directs and stars in the film, which debuted at SXSW and unfolds over a weekend in a Philadelphia. Building on the success of her well-received debut feature Actual People, writer-director-actor Kit Zauhar’s This Closeness further explores the deviously twisty nuances

After an asteroid collision, astronaut Mills (Adam Driver) crash lands on Earth — 65 million years ago. Together with the only other survivor, a young girl named Koa (Greenblatt), Mills must navigate the prehistoric world — and take on dinosaurs

Lori Singer plays a novelist and professor still reeling from her husband’s sudden death in this Florida-set character piece from the director of ‘Ruby in Paradise’ and ‘Ulee’s Gold.’ When he made his first feature, Gal Young ‘Un, in 1979,

A gay undercover cop pairs up with a paroled trans felon to infiltrate a drug network and finds their liaison complicated by his love for the person she used to be. For a film that hinges on deceptions, betrayals and

Imagine the iconic diner sit-down scene between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Michael Mann’s Heat stretched out to feature length and you’ll get some idea of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. Admittedly, there’s a terrific action sequence in

If you found Joe Johnston’s failed 2010 vehicle for Benicio del Toro, The Wolfman, bogged down by Gothic melodrama, fussy folklore and CGI excess, then the comparatively bare-bones storytelling of Universal’s latest return to the monster movie hall of fame,

Few moments provoke more anxious dread for residents of The Jungles, the vibrant Los Angeles locale in which the hilarious new film One of Them Days is set, than the first of the month. Their surly landlord lurks around the

It’s probably premature to say Netflix has finally started finding its groove with mainstream popcorn features, but after Rebel Ridge and Carry-On delivered muscular B-movie entertainment, Back in Action provides similar throwback pleasures, albeit in a family-friendly comedic vein. Seth

Rare is the artist whose work is such a game-changer that the only way to describe it is to transform their last name into an adjective. Even rarer is the chance of that ever happening in Hollywood, a place where

Sometimes, the more a movie strains for realness the more fake it seems. Such is the case with the new thriller directed by Neil Burger (Divergent, Limitless) that was filmed in so many colorful international locations you practically feel the

“There’ve been two moments in my life when I was happiest. The first was the day I met Josh. And the second was the day I killed him.” Those lines are uttered at the beginning of the new sci-fi-tinged thriller

Scientists say that our universe is constantly expanding. But some universes should know when to quit, as evidenced by the first television film (well, technically streaming film) and the 14th overall in the venerable Star Trek franchise. Premiering on Paramount+, Star Trek: Section 31 is

First, manage your expectations: This bio-documentary doesn’t reveal much that its subject, the actor Marlee Matlin, hasn’t already discussed — particularly in her own 2009 memoir I’ll Scream Later, in which she frankly addressed her struggles with addiction, sexual abuse experienced

It’s enormously gratifying to see John Magaro in a solo leading role. While he was one point of the love triangle in Past Lives, a joint lead in September 5 and First Cow, and an ensemble standout in Showing Up,

Mel Gibson’s first directorial effort since 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge finds the new ambassador to Hollywood working on a distinctly more intimate scale than usual. The inside of a small Cessna plane, to be precise, which is where most of the action of Flight

Maybe it’s because I’m a writer, but sports competition documentaries leave me cold. Same for those harrowing true-life tales of mountain climbers, free divers and, worst of all, surfers. But oratory — now that’s a subject that I can get

After Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, a virtuoso showcase for Emma Thompson that was also a rare candid conversation about an older woman’s sexuality, Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde returns in Jimpa to territory closer to 52 Tuesdays. That 2014