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Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” is one of the most purely entertaining films in years. It is the work of a cinematic magician, one who keeps you so focused on what the left hand is doing that...

“Knives Out” is wisely being billed as “A Rian Johnson Whodunit,” as no one would tell this story the way Johnson does. An update of the Agatha Christie ensemble murder mystery, the set-up might be recognizable—a...

Hideo Kojima makes video games like David Lynch makes movies. Traditional restrictions of the genre are out the window, and you can expect an experience that incorporates other mediums in ways that most people ignore. Just...

A Celebration of Black Cinema held by the Critics Choice Association (formerly known as the Broadcast Film Critics Association) is scheduled for Monday, December 2nd, at the new Landmark Annex, part of the Landmark Theatre complex in Los Angeles. The...

The history of art is filled with late pleasures that coincidentally seemed to comment on the death of the artist who made it. But once in a while you encounter a piece that seems like a...

“Dark Waters,” starring Mark Ruffalo as an attorney trying to punish the DuPont chemical corporation for dumping toxic waste in West Virginia, is a lone-crusader-against-the-corrupt-system film, in the tradition of  “The Insider,” “A Civil Action,” and “The Verdict.” Director Todd...

White heroes who have achieved accolades for doing what they were supposed to in accordance with an agenda that skews heavily conservative, preoccupy veteran director Clint Eastwood like no other subjects—even more so than those characters...

“Frozen II” has an autumnal palette, with russet and gold setting the stage for an unexpectedly elegiac tone in the follow-up to one of Disney’s most beloved animated features. Even the irrepressibly cheerful snowman Olaf (Josh...

We’ve reached a point, with shows like “Watchmen” and “Stranger Things,” in which it feels like even the most successful television needs a high-concept hook. But take the four-part mini-series “The Accident,” the latest production from Jack...

“Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator” is the harrowing, uneven mix of two popular types of documentary—true-crime docs about salacious abuses of power, and testimony docs, which exist largely to give people a chance to speak out against their...