There’s a great psychosexual drama lurking inside ‘Wicked Little Letters,’ an otherwise serviceable trifle starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.
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You can practically smell the director of ‘Asphalt City’ chain-smoking behind the camera, muttering about spitting in the face of humanity.
Adam Wingard’s ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ doesn’t deliver the giant-monster goods, but it does make its creatures disconcertingly adorable.
‘Shirley,’ the Regina King-starring biopic about the first Black woman presidential candidate, fails to match the power of its subject or the star who plays her.
Atmospheric and suspenseful, ‘Immaculate’ is artfully made and very well-acted by Sydney Sweeney. It’s also probably too tasteful to count as ‘nunsploitation.’
Radu Jude’s ‘Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World’ is the best and bleakest comedy of the year so far. It acknowledges the horror of modern existence, and suggests the only reasonable response is to laugh.
‘Lisa Frankenstein,’ written by Diablo Cody and directed by Zelda Williams, turns out to be a disappointingly flimsy horror comedy about a teen loner (Kathryn Newton) and her undead companion (Cole Sprouse).
Justine Triet’s ‘Anatomy of a Fall,’ now on Hulu, taps into a contemporary feeling that our perceptions of reality take precedence over reality itself.
The franchise, including David Gordon Green’s Exorcist: Believer, is a case study in the perils of massive initial success.
The film adaptation of a famous New Yorker short story is appropriately grimace-inducing, but it can’t help overexplaining its terror.