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Jeffrey Wright in 'Hold the Dark.' David Bukach Some filmmakers excel in telling stories; Jeremy Saulnier is better at setting moods. Oh, his movies have narratives: man wants revenge recently-released-from-prison killer of his family (Blue Ruin); punk rock band must […]
Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse and Abra in 'Assassination Nation.' Neon Films Fear not, ye sensitive viewers who have stumbled into writer-director Sam Levinson’s story of four young women who go from shamed, blamed, framed victims to avenging angels: […]
'Support the Girls' finds sisterhood in a Hooters-like restaurant — and gives us one of the great American movies of 2018. They call ’em “breastaurants” — those sports-bar-and-grills less known for their cuisine than their well-endowed waitresses poured into tight […]
‘Superfly’ isn’t just a bad remake of a 1972 blaxploitation classic, says Peter Travers – it’s the worst ‘Scarface’ rip-off in ages. Our review. Credit: Quantrell D. Colbert/Sony Pictures At least it looks super fly. It's too bad that Director […]
There are sci-fi parables that can meld tech-paranoia with body horror, and then there’s ‘Upgrade.’ Our review of the single best genre movie in ages. There are good modern B movies – those films that still borrow the old termite-art […]
‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ stages a meet-cute between 1977 punks and alien sex fiends before devolving into cult-movie cosplay. Our review. Credit: Dean Rogers Earth, 1977: England's dreaming, London's burning, and punk is raging as the U.K.'s […]