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Many movies have savaged filmmaking from Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BLVD to Robert Altman’s THE PLAYER to Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. The new Spanish Argentine feature OFFICIAL [...]

The short story by Joe Hill, upon which the new horror movie THE BLACK PHONE is based, tells a simple, deft, and harrowing story of child abduction in a mere 7,250 words. Writer/director Scott [...]

There’s a lot of excess in ELVIS, director Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic about Elvis Presley. Gleaming cinematography that practically glows in the dark, simple exposition scenes cut like they’re [...]

The title CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH is an odd one, a riff on the 2000 dance track by DJ Casper, that equals the offbeat tone coursing thru filmmaker Cooper Raiff’s sophomore feature. It’s a [...]

In filmmaker Michael Glover Smith’s new family dramedy RELATIVE, everything is indeed relative. A college student’s casual indifference to his own graduation party, a Type A daughter’s concern [...]

The new thriller WATCHER is ostensibly about voyeurism, stalking, and paranoia as a young woman in Budapest suspects that a neighbor across from her apartment window is watching her. However, [...]