Like many monsters, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is a hybrid. This sprawling film will instantly be approached by many viewers as first and foremost a vampire movie. In the style of those truly…
There is a unique amount of risk in Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet.” The task is to reimagine a story first told by Ang Lee in his classic 1993 original, which became…
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…
Christopher Landon’s “Drop” feels like the kind of thriller they used to make where the suspense builds out of the presence of its stars, no matter how wacky the premise gets. In…
Cinema remains the most powerful, universal tool for oppressed peoples to get their stories out. The moving image strikes more immediately than the printed word in our electronic age, even if both mediums…
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…