The main characters are the retired hitman John and his late wife Helen, the woman he retired for. Helen is past-tense to the ...

There’s nothing about “Alley Cats” that’s particularly interesting outside of how it reflects the current state of its ...

Almost exactly 13 years ago, when I was still a freelancer for this site, I wrote a piece about how FX’s hit “It’s Always ...

The critic turned filmmaker talks about working within other people's sensibilities and his own memories of SoHo.

On paper, “The End of Oak Street” seems like a departure from the type of horror, noir, surrealist comedy work David Robert Mitchell is best known for in “ It Follows ” and “ Under the Silver Lake .” ...

In 2024, I wrote about Netflix’s surefire hit “Tires”: “I suspect the second season will be stronger as the writers hone the voice of this show and characters.” Because of content timing, we didn’t ...

Over the last year or more, it’s been hilarious seeing headlines pondering which new action thriller will be the “Reacher” replacement. I didn’t realize we needed one. After watching Season 4, ...

Matthew McConaughey was a star to connoisseurs of up-and-coming actors long before his official ascension into the firmament in March 2014, when he won an Oscar for “Dallas Buyers Club” before “True ...

There’s a sequence in director Jay Chandrasekhar’s “Super Troopers 3” that acts as a synecdoche for the film’s charms as a whole. State trooper MacIntyre “Mac” Womack (Steve Lemme) discovers a ...

Consistently clever and funny, Dave Green’s “Coyote vs. Acme” opens with the funny credit that this is “Based on a True Story.” The true story behind the fight to get this film seen could someday make ...