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Katy O’Brian, left, and Kristen Stewart shine in the lead roles of "Love Lies Bleeding."

Leads are a knockout in love story

Last month, Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls had a very brief theatrical run as a light-hearted queer romance that was zany and even cartoony at points. This month, we have Love […]

Pyper Braun stars in the new horror film Imaginary.

Hard to imagine a worse horror film

Blumhouse made almost $300 million last fall with the sinister bear-fronted Five Nights at Freddy’s, and they returned to theaters on Oscars weekend with another bear in mind. The would-be […]

Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya reprise their roles in Dune: Part Two.

‘Dune: Part Two’ builds on storytelling

For retroactive clarity, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One was originally due to come out November 2020, but got pushed almost a year, debuting October 2021 in theaters and on HBO Max […]

Margaret Qualley, left, and Geradline Viswanathan star in the new comedy Drive-Away Dolls.

Ethan Coen goes it alone on comedy

When the Coen Brothers decided to amicably part ways in 2018 following their co-directed Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen chose to veer into the Shakespearean route […]

The new superhero film Madame Web stars, from left, Isabela Merced, Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, and Celeste O’Connor.

Superhero flick is a tangled mess

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe — the one that, confusingly, doesn’t actually have Spider-Man — crawls forward with Madame Web, another ode to a tertiary comic book character that didn’t need the […]

‘Frankenstein’ comes across lifeless

The story of Frankenstein has been reanimated so many times it was perhaps inevitable that we would eventually get a 1980s-tinged variation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. Fittingly, Lisa Frankenstein […]

Sam Rockwell and Bryce Dallas Howard star in the new action comedy Argylle.

‘Argylle’ leans heavily on tired tropes

With a couple of exceptions, Matthew Vaughn is a director whose appeal largely eludes me. Twenty years ago, his Guy Ritchie-esque Layer Cake was a sort of test run for […]

The animated film Orion and the Dark begins streaming on Netflix on Friday, Feb. 2.

Netflix film sheds light on fear

At first glance, the latest DreamWorks animated movie Orion and the Dark does not seem to stand out much from the legion of streaming kids movies. Orion and the Dark […]

Ariana DeBose stars in the new science-fiction drama I.S.S.

Tensions rise in sci-fi thriller

The sci-fi nail-biter I.S.S. opens, fittingly, with text about how the International Space Station serves as a symbol of alliance between the United States and Russia post-Cold War. In the […]