Reviews
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‘Villains’ Film Review: Small-Time Crooks Meet Very Bad People in Charmingly Eccentric Horror Comedy
Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe face off with Jeffrey Donovan and Kyra Sedgwick in a terror tale that’s oddly delightful
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‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Film Trailer: Sylvester Stallone’s One-Man Army Returns for More Dumb, Brutal Revenge Killing
Age cannot wither the action star’s thirst to showcase his slaughter skills, but this insane gorefest remains utterly pointless
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‘Ad Astra’ Film Review: Brad Pitt Journeys to the Edge of Space and the Depths of His Character’s Soul
Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways
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‘Don’t Be Nice’ Film Review: Slam Poetry Doc Follows Artists Finding Their Own Voices
The members of the Bowery Slam Poetry Team articulate their anguish, invisibility and trauma onstage
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‘Downton Abbey’ Film Review: Adorable PBS Aristocrats Win the Class War, Again
Satisfyingly cozy fan service struggles to keep up with dozens of “Downton” characters
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‘Loro’ Film Review: Paolo Sorrentino Spins a Gloriously Messy Yarn About Berlusconi
The director of “The Great Beauty” and “Youth” returns with a film that fluctuates between brash and silly, profound and misguided
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‘End of the Century’ Film Review: Lush Gay Romance Explores Paths Not Taken
Lucio Castro’s debut feels like a gay spin on Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, all distilled into a single film
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‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’ Review: White Hero Once Again Kidnaps a Native American Narrative
Apart from moving performances from Richard Ray Whitman and the late Dan Bald Eagle, this is another example of how not to tell a story about indigenous peoples
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‘Another Day of Life’ Film Review: Animated True Story Vacillates Between Documentary and Artificiality
An intense and violent look at war in Angola is undone by the slick, “Grand Theft Auto”-style animation aesthetic
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‘Riot Girls’ Film Review: Teens Battle It Out in a World Without Adults
There’s a fun, punk energy to this post-apocalyptic tale, but a too-short running time undercuts the stakes and the fun
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‘Monos’ Film Review: Evocative, Oblique Film Follows Kid Commandoes and Their Prisoners
One part “Lord of the Flies” and one part Mica Levi’s dissonant score results in a fascinating but sometimes vague coming of age
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‘The Sound of Silence’ Film Review: Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones Excel in Soulful Tale of Sound and Connection
The clashing notes of New York’s rattle and hum stir an audiophile to explain human behavior in this touching drama
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‘Depraved’ Film Review: Larry Fessenden’s Latest Is a Mumblecore Frankenstein
The film answers the question no one asked: “What if the scientists who brought the dead back to life were immature jerks?”
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‘Chained for Life’ Film Review: Cult-Film-Within-a-FIlm Creates Haunting Meta-Narrative
Jess Weixler and Adam Pearson (“Under the Skin”) star in a movie about a movie where lines get blurred
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‘Next Level’ Film Review: YouTube Teens Star in Well-Meaning But Borderline Inept Musical
Production values in a musical don’t matter if the songs and dances are great, but in this case, they are not
