[SPOILERS BELOW! You have been warned.] I know it’s faithful to the source material, but Muschietti really shouldn’t have brought back...

Not to get excessively sentimental or philosophical, but I had a rather profound epiphany today—triggered by, of all things, a video...

[Yes, I did endure this cinematic atrocity so that you wouldn’t have to. You’re welcome.] Furry. Obviously. Vore. Perpetrated during...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; you have been warned!] Well, to quote the late Orson Krennic: “We were on the verge of...

My initial review of Tora-san was already a bit too bloated and unfocused for my standards, but I simply had to rectify my failure to...

I’ve decided to revisit my House of Bamboo review because I somehow forgot to mention that it features one of the most realistically...

Following Rutger Hauer’s death earlier this year, I bought several of his more obscure films, and tonight, I finally got around to...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Looper is a great science fiction film because it uses time travel as a prop rather than...

Nowadays, Wait Until Dark is seldom ranked among the best thrillers ever made, even though it absolutely earns a spot on such a list....

“Tokyo Stories”, Japan Society’s special showcase of Japanese movies made by foreigners, has entered its final weekend. Despite my...

[The following review contains minor SPOILERS; you have been warned!] Knives Out is about as far from a conventional murder mystery as...

There are plenty of delicious morsels to savor in Frozen, Disney’s latest animated offering: the heartwarming central theme, which argues...

Frozen 2 is nothing short of miraculous. In many ways, its predecessor became a victim of its own success; after it smashed every...

Sometimes, trauma leaves behind a shadow—a specter that hounds you throughout the rest of your life. Deny it, avoid it, run from it all...

Over a decade before Parasite earned him near universal critical acclaim and made him top contender for Best Foreign Language Film at the...

The theme of Japan Society’s latest cinematic retrospective is a bit unorthodox: movies set in Tokyo… but shot by non-native directors....

[The following review contains SPOILERS; you have been warned!] If the poetry of violence is a language in and of itself, then Martin...

For the past three weeks, Film Forum has been running a special program of rare (and, in many cases, never before imported) Japanese...

Many classic “midnight movies” inhabit the gray area between art and schlock, and Glass Eye Pix’s Depraved is no exception; indeed, this...

[Minor SPOILERS below; you have been warned!] Finally caught a screening of Parasite. Like many South Korean movies, this dark comedy is...