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A tribute, long overdue in these parts, to the great Lloyd Kaufman, the head honcho at the last of the mini-majors, Troma Team Studios. Lloyd oversaw an empire of bad taste from his little corner of...

2022 wasn’t really Fantastic Fest’s return to an in-person event, but it felt like it. The festival’s 2021 edition was a scaled down affair, with limited seating capacity and no in-person parties. The festival was also...

“Till” tells the story of the murder of Emmett Till and the activism of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. It is the second retelling of this story in 2022, after the January ABC miniseries “Women of the...

The New York Film Festival always seems to arrive at the perfect time, just as summer’s heat and humidity fade and fall’s enlivening crispness settles in. Having covered the festival for decades, I’m always gladdened to...

Director Wayne Wang’s versatility has never failed to impress. From his debut film, the low-budget mystery-comedy “Chan is Missing,” to the ensemble family dramas “Eat a Bowl of Tea” and “The Joy Luck Club” and “Maid in Manhattan” to the psychosexual...

Abigail Disney is the granddaughter of Walt Disney and one of a seeming handful of well-off Americans who can regularly be seen on social media and television saying that people like her should be taxed more....

Whenever I rank the 13 feature films of Stanley Kubrick, “A Clockwork Orange” is always a major headache for me. Along with “Dr. Strangelove” (1964) and “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), it shows Kubrick at the...

Sometimes an actor enters the pantheon because of one unforgettable performance, and surely there is no clearer example of this than Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in Miloš Forman’s film of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s...

When the horror histories of the 2010s are written, the decade will be associated with trauma metaphors the way the ‘80s are with slasher movies. And although it comes on the cusp of a new decade,...

You aren’t likely to see a more rightfully angry film this year than “Athena,” a non-stop opus examining the racism, inequality, and police violence that wreak havoc on France’s banlieue communities of color. That palpable fury...