The film has three sections, and each part seems to assume a different set of genre conventions, a different set of emotional cues.

While the film does insist on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset, it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down.

The charm of a fantastical hand-drawn work like this is that it reconnects us to the primal wonder of the image.

In Between is a movie not so much about suffering as it is about the grinding reality of just being.

In Paddington 2, the emigre bear (again voiced by Ben Whishaw) appears to be the glue holding the Browns’ diverse, colorful neighborhood together

Phantom Thread unfolds so quietly that the questions it’s asking about the nature of desire and attraction may not register immediately.

The Post is not a fond, hazy glance back, but a terrified, urgent look forward.

Over the course of the film, we go from seeing the elder Getty as a figure of great power to one of no power at all, and that is perhaps the most fascinating part of the movie.

Writer-director Rian Johnson has certainly made the busiest Star Wars film of them all, but he keeps it from becoming a slog.

One of the great delights of this film is the way it charts the shifting waves of allegiances that can occur in a family.

Although it goes beyond a mere stylistic device, the supernatural here often feels like a function of Thelma’s loneliness and inner turmoil

Franco portrays Wiseau as a haughty but charismatic weirdo, someone who isn’t well-liked but who definitely gets noticed.

Just as the story should start to speed up and get more predictably exciting, it becomes weirder.

It starts off as the portrait of a troubled child, but expands to become a film about community

Action scenes start and stop and then start again, then go in different directions, and it was a few moments into The Big Climactic Face-Off before I realized we’d arrived at The Big Climactic Face-Off

There’s a lot of great filmmaking in Novitiate, but there’s also quite a bit still missing.

The picture’s final moments suggest that it’s meant as a tribute to simple people, but Last Flag Flying merely hints at the idea.

The Palme d’Or winner raises plenty of questions.

It’s funny, it’s colorful, it’s got cool music.

Imagine a remake of Cape Fear shot like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, with Max Cady recast as a child, and you’ll have some idea of the strangeness of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer. It was one of the most divisive titles at this year’s Cannes festival, thanks…

For all his reputation as a capital-A Auteur, Todd Haynes has always demonstrated impressive stylistic versatility. The Sirkian pastiche of Far from Heaven is a far cry from the lo-fi expressionism of Poison, and the music video wonderland of Velvet Goldmine has relatively little in common with the fractured minimalism…

The numbers in the title of 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene refer to the number of setups and shots that were required to create the shocking cinematic savagery that occurs less than an hour into the director’s 1960 masterpiece, Psycho. You know the scene: It killed off star Janet Leigh’s character…