"Why are you teaching us to be so rude?" the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in "The Monk and the Gun." It's a question both poignant and biting, because the "teaching"...

There is a lot of pretty niche comic book mythology swirling around "Madame Web," the inspiration for the newest of Sony's "Spider-Man" spinoffs. This is a character who goes back to 1980 and...

It will come as no surprise that the new movie "Lisa Frankenstein" is a real monster — stitched together from previous movies, painfully incoherent and deeply, deeply dumb. This is a...

Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the...

Words like "important" and "vital" are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It's not that we don't mean it — it's just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And...

Denis Villeneuve doesn’t feel like he came back to Arrakis for “Dune: Part Two.” In his mind, he never left. The sequel, which opens in theaters on March 1, is the culmination...

Think of food and movies and your mind could quickly whip up a five-course meal. Maybe a few hard-boiled eggs, to start, from "Cool Hand Luke." A side order of toast from "Five Easy Pieces," followed...

With war raging in Ukraine and U.S.-Russia relations below freezing, the Cold War movie may be alive, again, too. After decades when fears of mutual destruction and nuclear fallout filtered into...

What happens in the teachers' lounge, anyway? When we were kids, that closed door seemed so tantalizingly forbidding, though it probably only hid some coffee-sipping, light chitchat and...

Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember "The Accountant" with Ben Affleck? Or "The Tax Collector" with Shia LaBeouf? Or more recently, how...