As a sensory experience, Alex Garland’s “Warfare” is one of the most visceral recent examples of cinema’s capacity to place a viewer within a moment. Garland co-directs and wrote the script with…
We just can’t let go of the past. “Freaky Tales” is another headlong dive into 1980s nostalgia, clearly made by millennials who cherish their childhood memories encased in VHS. Directors Anna Boden…
All that is greenlit must first be I.P. per current studio dictum, so now we get “A Minecraft Movie.” As the title announces, this is the movie adaptation of the 2011 sandbox…
There is such a drought of original content at the box office that you want to sigh with relief when approaching the premise of “Death of a Unicorn.” It’s not fibbing with…
Midway through “The Friend,” writer Iris (Naomi Watts) says children are taught to worry animals will come to bad ends because of fairy tales, and sad fictions like “Old Yeller,” “The Red…
In “The Penguin Lessons,” Steve Coogan plays a character we seem to instantly recognize. He is a teacher who has become jaded and figures he can coast through a cushy new job,…
A movie like “A Working Man” is pre-designed to function as a crowd experience. You need to see it in a theater, with an audience ready to laugh and holler at the…
French director Fleur Fortuné feature debut “The Assessment” is the latest film to imagine what procreation might look like in the not-so-distant future. Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel are Mia and Aaryan, a…