Brent Simon, the former President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (and, it should be disclosed, a friend of mine ...

Former talk show host Stephen Colbert is among the many public figures in “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World” who discuss the poet’s importance to English language literature and their own ...

The Isolate Thief” is a tough, grisly Western that overplays the grisliness a little too often for its own good; towards the ...

It doesn't quite fire on all cylinders, but when the bone-dumb gags fly this gleefully, it's hard to care overmuch.

If you’re on a break from repeat viewings of the Martin Scorsese mainstays “Goodfellas,” “Casino” and “The Irishman” but ...

There’s a later sequence where the camera documents a burning car that feels more folkloric than mundane, as the boys dance ...

Iranian-American writer Azar Nafisi is the central figure of Eran Riklis’s adaptation of her memoir, “Reading Lolita in ...

Night Nurse,” about a senior citizen in a luxury elder-care facility and the nurses he enlists in a scam, is a dreamy, ...

A pleasant enough eight-episode drama that more than looks the part without ever really challenging its audience.

After a summer in which horror fans have been rabid over smart genre films like “Backrooms,” “Obsession,” and “Leviticus,” it’s a bit disheartening to see a movie as remarkably dumb as “Evil Dead Burn ...

Born and raised in North Carolina but now based near Harvard, where he’s taught filmmaking since 1986, Ross McElwee is one of the most original, consistently excellent nonfiction filmmakers of the ...

The best Assassin's Creed game has been upgraded for the modern console era, making it even less of a contest.