I’m probably the only person who will think of a ‘70s family film franchise while watching Paul Feig’s “Another Simple Favor.” There was a time, young readers, when sequels more commonly took their ...

Duplass and Strassner have crafted a beautiful film that somehow feels spontaneous, a window into a relationship that ...

Cole’s protestations of innocence in the arson haven’t been helped by the fact that he and his buddies have warped the image of Baypen’s figurehead, a smiling clown named Frendo, by creating viral ...

Control Freak” staggers through its increasingly surreal story like a disoriented person trying to get to a bed before they ...

I’ve seen many SXSW debuts that seem like they might have played better as short films (some started out that way). For all its virtues, including game performances and a catchy period soundtrack, ...

A short prologue is set in 1983, as a mother is making dinner in her avocado-green kitchen, wearing her lace bib and ...

It's really the circular nature of the script, and its languid pacing and numerous red herrings, that lets the otherwise-workmanlike nature of the miniseries down.

A film finally hit this year’s relatively down SXSW like a bolt of lightning, producing multiple in-film applause breaks and a standing ovation at the end. Andrew Patterson’s “The Rivals of Amziah ...

Since its first season debuted in 2021, Prime Video’s “The Wheel of Time” has suffered from bloated storytelling and ...

I have seen two films by the Cutler-Kreutzes (I programmed their latest short film “Trapped” at last year’s Chicago Critics Film Festival), and I have great admiration for how they manage to craft ...