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“You can overcome most obstacles in multiple ways. Use your wits and your brains. Experiment. If you think something might be possible to do, it probably is.” These words pop up often in Frictional Games’ “Amnesia:...

For too much of film history, the first half of the year has often been forgotten as people make their top ten lists when the calendar actually turns over. It’s a product of studios scheduling high-profile...

“Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” is a cheerful, colorful animated film about a shy, academically gifted young girl with a protective mother and devoted friends who transforms into a huge creature as a metaphor for adolescence, with multi-generational...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia” still knocks me out even though it has been almost 25 years since it came out in 1999. Masterfully juggling many different narratives in the San Fernando Valley, California on one particularly...

It’s a weird, uncertain time for streaming; it feels like the bloom’s come off the rose a bit as audiences grow wise to building loyalty for shows that might just get canceled two or three seasons...

Looking back on the career of Julian Sands, whose remains were just found and identified after he went missing back in January while hiking in California’s San Gabriel Mountains, can be a bit of a puzzling...

Cheese graters, tattoo needles, kitchen scissors—it would be harder to name a household object that isn’t put to exorbitantly gory good use in Lee Cronin’s “Evil Dead Rise,” a gratifyingly lean and impressively mean new installment...

10 NEW TO MAX “Dog Day Afternoon”Eastern Promises””Evil Dead Rise””The Hurt Locker””I, Tonya””Moneyball””Moonlight””Narc””Ready Player One””A Star is Born” 10 NEW TO NETFLIX “The Breakfast Club””Dunkirk””Groundhog Day””The Imitation Game””Living””Mean Girls””The Mule””Stronger””To Leslie””Unbroken” 11 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Avatar:...

Just enough of Apple TV’s latest high-profile thriller works to recommend it, even if it never quite achieves the heights it should with its premise and captivating leading man. Idris Elba has had a fascinating career...

We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the latest issue of the online magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme for this month is “Siblings,” and in addition to Frank Falisi’s excerpted essay below on Laura Poitras’ “All the...