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Five Nights at Freddy’s is streaming on Peacock and also showing in theaters.

Horror movie lacks scares, tension

Now streaming on Peacock, and reportedly making a killing in theaters, the video-game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy’s may work as fan service for those who love the source material. […]

Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro star in Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon.

Scorsese plays it safe with tragic tale

Now 80 years old, landmark filmmaker Martin Scorsese has spent the past 10 years of his career making films and telling stories he’s been itching to tell for quite some […]

Julia Garner, left, and Jessica Henwick star in the new thriller The Royal Hotel.

Make reservation to see new thriller

Following up her exceptional narrative feature debut The Assistant from 2020, Australian filmmaker Kitty Green is back with what could be described as another workplace thriller. Trading the frigid interiors […]

Lidya Jewett, left, and Olivia O’Neill star in the new horror film The Exorcist: Believer.

Reimagined classic is not compelling

With his Halloween trilogy complete, director David Gordon Green turns his attention to reviving another franchise that began in the 1970s with a smash horror hit. The Exorcist: Believer is […]

Alden Ehrenreich, left, and Phoebe Dynevor star in Fair Play.

Not all is fair in love and office life

One of the very best film debuts of the year, Chloe Domont’s Fair Play is a bracingly taut psychosexual thriller that leaves an impact long after the credits have run. […]

Eve Hewson and Orén Kinlan star in "Flora and Son."

Power of music strengthens bonds

Few people have translated the unique and powerful way music brings people together better than writer/director John Carney. His films Once (2007), Begin Again (2013), and Sing Street (2016) are […]

Pete Davidson, left, and Paul Dano portray brothers in the new film Dumb Money.

Invest your time into ‘Dumb Money’

The always whip-fast and sometimes whip-smart finance comedy Dumb Money opens with a definition of its title: A term for what Wall Street investors call amateur day traders looking to […]

Ayo Edebiri, left, and Rachel Sennott star in the new comedy Bottoms.

Raunchy comedy does not hold back

Shiva Baby writer and director Emma Seligman teams back up with its star Rachel Sennott for Bottoms, another sex comedy that’s paradoxically weirder and somehow more mainstream than Seligman’s 2020 […]

Denzel Washington returns as a one-man wrecking crew in The Equalizer 3.

Not all trilogies are created equal

When it comes to Hollywood math, having just one sequel doesn’t quite square the equation. So, nine years after vigilante actioner The Equalizer, we have a trilogy capper in the form […]