That pride is challenged by the very existence of a Green Lantern recruit by his side. In the premiere, Jordan puts Stewart through the motions, sending his car off the cliff so John will use the ring ...

In the opening minutes of “American Doctor,” filmmaker Poh Si Teng sits with Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish-American surgeon (one of three medical professionals this film will track), over photos of ...

There’s a special sauce in the art of the stoner comedy, flavoring its antics with a mirepoix of stoned pontifications, gleefully zooted dissociation, and pure euphoria. Combining the integral laissez ...

For the sake of disclosure, I’m the kind of fan of “The X-Files” who has already completed this, a LEGO set dedicated to fans of Chris Carter’s influential hit. (And, don’t worry, I bought it in time ...

We sometimes talk about how an actor portraying a real-life figure is “virtually unrecognizable” and “disappears into the role” thanks to makeup and hair and prosthetics and, most important, the tools ...

Since the Canadian “PAW Patrol” television series debuted in 2013, it has become one of the most lucrative franchises in the world, a powerhouse source of spin-offs, toys, games, t-shirts, backpacks, ...

Sometimes you see a movie so dull, it’s a struggle to string words together about it. “The Birthday Party,” Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s meandering snooze fest, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival ...

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 ...

In this first dispatch from Locarno is a trio of films one might call “elusive.” They all capture weighty, human subjects: sensuality, war, and disaster—with a visual and sonic approach that’s ...

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 ...

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 .” ...

Throughout the last decade, filmmaker Julia Hart has been building a delicately beautiful body of work, putting her own expressive stamp on everything from superhero films (“Fast Color”) to neo-noirs ...