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It’s been 18 years since “Taken” came out, and bad guys still haven’t learned not to fuck with — older, seemingly harmless — people who […]

What does Emma want? As is often the case in both real life and the movies, this modern millennial lady ponders this very question all […]

Toward the beginning of Tim Blake Nelson’s “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,” a downhearted but defiantly humane prison drama that skips around in […]

Rachel Morrison’s “Love of Your Life” is one of my favorite things, all too rare in today’s Hollywood: A gorgeously shot romantic drama about impossibly […]

Anna Biller put plenty of blood into “The Face of Horror.” She just isn’t sure it was enough blood for some of the folks at […]

Like her previous film, the generational epic “Bones of Crows,” which explored the traumatic echoes of Canada’s residential schools, writer/director Marie Clements’ latest film, “How […]

The nickname Mr. Irrelevant really exploded in awareness for football fans when Brock Purdy, the last overall NFL draft pick in his class, became the […]

With filmmaker Beth de Araújo was just a child in her native San Francisco, she witnessed a devastating crime that reverberated through her family and […]

A raw and biting — or at least vigorously gumming — showbiz character study about a faded Black actress whose entire adult life has been […]

In genre movies, streamers have become the new frat boys — characters so obnoxious, the audience can’t wait to watch them die. “Vintage Violence,” the […]