In Theaters and Digital

There is something inherently suspicious about people who are too nice. Not kind, necessarily, but agreeable in that frictionless, smiling way that suggests either a pyramid scheme or something much worse. Peter Stylianou’s The  ...

Holy shit, this might just be my favorite interpretation of Macbeth. Shakespeare’s tragedy has survived castles, battlefields, boardrooms, and countless high-school English classrooms, but it feels unexpectedly at home  ...

Prepare to be emotionally wrecked. Heart of the Beast got past all the armor I have built from watching these types of man’s-best-friend movies. I knew exactly what David Ayer was doing. I could see the emotional pressure points  ...

A Marble in the Jar begins with the pursuit of something enormous: a World Title. Professional surfer Tatiana Weston-Webb has spent her life chasing that impossible combination of preparation, instinct, timing, and one  ...

There is something uniquely unsettling about remembering that To Catch a Predator was once appointment television. Millions of us willingly gathered around our televisions to watch alleged predators walk into suburban kitchens ...

Child begins with a question that sounds almost too easy: how far would you go to save your dying son? Most parents would answer without hesitation—any distance, any cost, any sacrifice. Writer-director Cyrus Neshvad understands  ...

It took twenty-four years, eight live-action movies, countless gallons of fake blood, and more than a few cinematic misfires, but somebody has finally figured out how to make a Resident Evil movie. About damn time. Zach Cregger doesn’t approach  ...

Ryan Reynolds hasn’t quite pigeonholed himself yet as Hollywood’s dopey-yet-amiable doofus, but he’s definitely standing in line at the Goofball Store with money in hand. I mean, look at his recent roles in the Deadpool  ...

Sleep is supposed to be the one place where the monsters cannot follow us—or at least where we can blame them on bad wiring, buried trauma, and whatever greasy mistake we ate before crawling into bed. In Parasomnia, writer-director  ...

IThere is something profoundly American about discovering a dead body and immediately wondering whether there might be money in cleaning it up. Dead Janitors Club, the darkly comedic crime thriller adapted from Jeff  ...