The Wailing opens with an excerpt from the Bible. It comes from Luke, where Jesus, not long after his resurrection, asks his followers to trust his material presence in the world, even though they saw...

Recently restored to glorious effect, The Mystery of the Wax Museum belongs to a rare breed of horror from the early 1930s that tested the boundaries of representation. During these early decades of t...

Watching The Goonies today is an exercise in nostalgia wrapped in more nostalgia. The movie brings back warm memories of Steven Spielberg’s heyday from the mid-1980s, when his cherished products, watc...

If there’s a recurring theme in every Judd Apatow comedy, it’s arrested development. More often than not, his movies involve man-children whose juvenile friendships, usually with other man-children, d...

Having never read Eoin Colfer’s young adult book series, I felt at an immediate disadvantage when I sat down to watch Artemis Fowl on Disney+. Within the first few minutes, director Kenneth Branagh’s ...

The Western film genre once encapsulated what it meant to be American. Filmmakers active during the Western renaissance—such as Anthony Mann, John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, and Howard Hawks—epitomized why ...

Watched in a vacuum, Willow is a pleasant enough fantasy. It’s a there-and-back-again adventure about a little person and a roguish swordsman who join forces on an epic journey. Driven by a prophecy a...

Kitty Green’s The Assistant is about Harvey Weinstein and his behavior that exploded into the #MeToo movement in 2017. But Weinstein exists on the periphery of this story, which takes place at an unna...

If you don’t know much about Natalie Wood, the new documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind offers some idea about what made her a star, while also giving an intimate look at her life behind the ...