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Documentarian Freida Mock presents her subject as a play in three acts, but the academic and fragmented structure obscures the warmth of this playwright.
Supernatural horror is perfect Friday night fun
Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the children's classic rarely soars.
Despite the film's good-natured sense of absurdity about the afterlife, it's not enough to make up for its lack of real humor or meaning.
Documentary recounts the risks run by India’s women journalists
Wrong (2013, 94 min., NR) 




Quentin Dupieux, the director of Rubber, is back with another film brimming with encounters with the bizarre and surreal.
French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.
The humble brewski, a simple blend of water, toasted grain, and hops that enthusiasts chug by the half-dozen, assumes grail-like import for bored 19-year-olds James and Russell in Alex Holdridge's engaging, sneakily poignant comedy. Proudly flaunting ...
The American horror film, like Michael Jackson’s nose, has become a denuded affair, a shadow of its former glory, cut and chopped to secure the R rating, and none the better for it. It seems everybody’s ...
I was wrong: There are worse things than Mr. Magoo. With any luck, this parody of The Fugitive and other on-the-lam thrillers will sound the death knell for the once-talented writer Proft (Naked Gun, Hot Shots!) ...
Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) wrests Wuthering Heights from the heaving bosom of Romantics majors and gives it a good shake – even if she doesn't know when to stop.
Wyatt Earp (1994, 191 min., PG-13) 




Wyatt Earp wasn't Gandhi, but you wouldn't know it to look at this weighty Western. It gives the famous lawman the Richard Attenborough treatment: a three-hour, cross-continental, epic look at the man's life in its entirety, ...
X (2022, 105 min., R) 




Ti West returns with a brilliant period horror-porno (horno?)
X (1996, 98 min., R) 




“What is going on here?!” cries a bloodied character midway through director Rintaro's apocalyptic anime bloodfest. What, indeed. As is so often the case with Japanese animation, X's plotting is byzantine to say the least, with ...
Mulder and Scully, these once-keen buckers of bureaucratic BS and masters of the painfully engorged tease, have become deadly dull in this newest incarnation.
The X-Files (1998, 122 min., PG-13) 




An enigma wrapped in a conundrum sealed in a plain brown vapor-lock baggie that -- wonder of wonders! -- actually makes a fair amount of sense. In the five years since creator Chris Carter brought his ...
X-Men (2000, 104 min., PG-13) 




It's inspired casting indeed to plug Shakespearean greats Stewart and McKellen into the (literally) comic-book roles of professor Charles Francis Xavier (aka Professor X) and evil genius Eric Magnus Lehnsherr (aka Magneto) in this thoroughly well-cast ...
Another bloated spectacle that serves neither the fans nor the story
Diverting but rarely riveting, this latest offering from the Marvel Universe kicks the can down the road some more.
The origins of the bad blood among Marvel's mutants is explored in this new film from the franchise.
Wolverine is a noisy mess, full of Hugh Jackman's seriously killer snarl but utterly devoid of the borderline-subversive smarts that made Bryan Singer's X-Men films so resonant.
This third outing in the franchise lays on the subtext even more heavily than its predecessors – racial, gender, and sexual politics are all over the place, as are the multiple strands of the story line.
At the rate they’re going, Bryan Singer’s X-Men films – adapted from Marvel Comics’ popular and long-running series about mutant superhumans living, loving, and kicking some righteous bad-guy booty when they’re not schooling or being schooled ...
Actress Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks) makes an impressive debut as a film director with this evocative Chinese drama. The story is a period piece set during the years of the Cultural Revolution when, ...
XXX (2002, 124 min., PG-13) 




It's difficult to know what to make of a film that opens with an action-packed prologue set to a live performance by sturm und drang Teutonic industri-fetishists Rammstein, and from there moves to a Prague-for-Vienna homage ...
Vin Diesel returns to kickstart this action series
A nonstop orgy of bullets, bombs, and booty that aims low and hits the bull’s-eye with enough firepower to sink the Bismarck.
XX/XY (2003, 91 min., R) 




The clever title of this vaguely insightful film about the vagaries of modern romance suggests, with a degree of facetiousness, that the primary difference between men and women – when it comes to relationships, that is ...
Boys, filled with testoterone and joints, will be boys.
Japan’s nuttiest filmmaker Takashi Miike strikes again