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Serendipity (2001, 91 min., PG-13)
When Jonathan (Cusack) meets Sara (Beckinsale), they're stuck in the Christmas crush at Bloomingdale's, both eyeing the last pair of cashmere black gloves. He's kinda funny, and she's pretty cute; after a few hours of courtship, ...
Serenity (2019, 106 min., R)
Matthew McConaughey's beach thriller drowns in red herrings
Serenity (2005, 119 min., PG-13)
Joss Whedon’s Western/sci-fi hybrid (which was canceled from TV but greenlighted for the movies) evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original Star Wars films.
The resurrection of Ms. Turner, via the man who gave us Divine and dogshit. Who would have thought? Exactly what the title implies, Serial Mom is Waters' take on both America's infatuation with serial killers and ...
Forgive me for stating the obvious: American culture is in the grip of reality TV. Furthermore, every armchair sociologist in the land has an opinion, entertainment forecast, or theory as to what this phenomenon means or ...
The Coen brothers deliver one of their best and most personal movies, a kind of cockeyed Jewish fable that urges us to embrace life's mysteries.
Cheryl Hines directs this romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton, based on a script penned by Adrienne Shelly.
While not as awful as the last film adaptation of a Dean Koontz novel (the evil Corey Haim vehicle Watchers), Servants is a far cry from what it could have been. It's hard to imagine an ...
Sometimes, movies are so bad that they achieve a perverse artistry in their own right -- Mommy Dearest, Showgirls, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Lonely Lady, and any movie Joan Crawford made after 1950 instantly ...
A sex therapist helps a man living in an iron lung experience human intimacy; John Hawkes and Helen Hunt keep things from becoming prurient.
This action-heist drama about four young African-American women from L.A.'s housing projects is as much a story about friendship as a story about crime.
French-Canadian writer-director Léa Pool's Set Me Free (Emporte-Moi) is a coming-of-age film that stands apart from the average genre formulations that have become such popular storytelling formats in recent years. The story of 13-year-old Hanna (Vanesse) ...
Settlers (2021, 103 min., NR)
Dusty space colonizer drama ponders the end of two worlds
Seven (1995, 107 min., R)
A serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi is hunted by two New York City detectives in this hellish take on Nineties film noir.
Jason Schwartzman stars in this comedy from droll Austin auteur Bob Byington
7 Days (2022, 86 min., NR)
COVID rom-com is a breezy look at modern arranged marriages
Robert Duvall and Lucas Black join forces for this film version of psychologist/golfer David Cook's memoir, Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia.
Will Smith stars in this dramatic film about a man who whose melancholia compels him to devise a unique plan to redeem what remains of his life.
A knockout cast of oddball actors seize the reins in Martin McDonagh's smart comedy about dumb people doing really awful things.
Forget the trailers: Seven Years in Tibet is emphatically not another of those sprawling, inert, beached-whale travelogue movies à la Out of Africa. Nor is it a jerry-rigged contrivance serving no other purpose than to showcase ...
17 Again (2009, 105 min., PG-13)
Tween idol Zac Efron graduates into a nonsinging and nondancing world in this body-switch movie, and the result should keep ’em coming back for more.
17 Blocks (2021, 96 min., NR)
Incredible home-footage documentary blows shows that no one is voiceless
Don Hertzfeldt's “World of Tomorrow” caps this mostly nifty program
Training Day meets The Exorcist
Seventh Son (2015, 102 min., PG-13)
Fantasy film about an apprentice Spook battling Julianne Moore's evil witch.
’71 (2011, 99 min., R)
A kinetic chase movie uses the Troubles of Northern Ireland as its setting
78/52 (2017, 91 min., NR)
An effusive doc on the shower scene from Psycho
76 Days (2020, 93 min., NR)
Over-the-shoulder view of how Wuhan responded to the pandemic
Severance (2007, 90 min., R)
This British horror comedy ricochets from violence to vengeance to outright survivalism, with comedy – some brilliant, some less so – underlying it all.
This serial-killer comedy, which screened during Fantastic Fest, is a self-indulgent, snarky, scattershot affair.