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If Sigmund Freud had directed horror movies they might have looked something like Afraid of the Dark. This British movie uses common childhood fears and anxieties to create a frightening stage on which the subconscious dramas ...
Lions and cheetahs in the African savanna look lovely onscreen but are imbued with human emotions.
After Blue (2022, 127 min., NR)
French sci-fi weirdness finds a new Eden
After Earth (2013, 100 min., PG-13)
Often gorgeous, sometimes fascinating, this Smith-family outing is ultimately unwieldy and unsurprising.
This documentary raises staggering questions about virtually every aspect of the criminal-justice system as it follows what happens to several convicts who have been exonerated by DNA evidence submitted by the Innocence Project.
After Life (2004, 118 min., NR)
They file in one by one, emerging from a hazy white light into the waiting area of what appears to be some drab, pre-computer-age social service agency. Most, but not all, of them are old; they ...
Possibly the ideal film to more or less ignore while lounging poolside and sipping Jamaican rum, After the Sunset is 100-proof pap.
American remake of Danish Oscar contender flails into melodrama
An expat Danish aid worker in Mumbai returns to Copenhagen to meet with a benefactor, only to discover that the world is even smaller than it seems.
After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, what's life like for the 4 remaining doctors who perform late-term abortions in this country?
Marcia Gay Harden stars as a lonely woman on vacation in an exotic locale
A tender sci-fi parable about loss and connection
Afterglow (1997, 113 min., R)
Afterglow is an adult love story tinged with large measures of comedy and sadness. It's also illuminated with superb performances by Nick Nolte and sight-for-sore-eyes Julie Christie, whose work was recognized this week with an Oscar ...
Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård are stuck inside of Hamburg with the Casablanca blues
A woman creates a tempest in her domestic teapot when she invites a lap dancer to stay with her family.
Aftersun (2022, 92 min., R)
Poignant final holiday sums up a beautifully captured father-daughter relationship
Like a lot of sports movies, this biopic about boxing promoter Jackie Kallen is better than it has to be but not as good as it ought to be.
Romantic hokum, well done
Edith Wharton's portrait of 19th century New York society as rendered by Martin Scorsese.
Almost all Hollywood kids fare can be assessed with a single sentence: The youthful star is likable enough, the action is constant, the message is reasonably wholesome ("Just be yourself!"), and parents don’t have much else ...
Frankie Muniz, playing the star agent of the CIA's kiddie corps, saves the day in London.
Agnes (2021, 93 min., NR)
Sleazy, sexy, bawdy and surprising look at religion, lust, and power
Angela McCourt, the Irish heroine-mum of Frank McCourt's witheringly sentimental novel Angela's Ashes (as well as Alan Parker's recent film adaptation) has a twin of sorts in Agnes Browne. Although Mrs. McCourt's straits were dire indeed, ...
Jonathan Demme's riveting documentary about slain Haitian populist and radio personality Jean Dominique.
Alison Klayman's doc is as much a rallying cry for freedom of expression as it is a portrait in progress of an artist whose career is ongoing.
Executed serial killer Aileen Wuornos leaves little doubt as to her sanity in this second Nick Broomfield documentary on the subject.
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a homely, luckless, lesbian hooker who haunted the interstates of jerkwater Florida, committed a series of seven murders. All of the victims were middle-aged, caucasian males who had tried to ...
Ailey (2021, 82 min., PG-13)
The lasting legacy of revolutionary choreographer Alvin Ailey
Aimée & Jaguar was nominated this year for the Golden Globe's Best Foreign Film, and although it lost to Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother, it's easy to see why the film has become something of ...
A hardscrabble, heartbreaking, love-and-death affair is gorgeously captured in David Lowery's Texas feature.