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HBO’s “The Wizard of Lies” reunites a filmmaker and star once at the top of their games. In the ‘80s and most of the ‘90s, a film starring Robert De Niro and a film directed by...

In his appraisal of Spike Lee’s “She Hate Me,” critic Nathan Rabin describes a “Morning Paper Auteur” thusly: “A filmmaker who picks up the morning paper, grows more enraged about each article he reads, and decides...

“That’s the point of a commune. You support each other.” Said by one character at a moment of crisis in Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune,” it expresses the ideal of living in community. If a group of...

You’ll never know how good the first three “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies were until you’re forced to see the fourth one.And it’s not just because “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul” has...

With “Alien: Covenant,” director Ridley Scott returns to the form that so impelled and captivated audiences in the original 1979 film: a crew in trouble, an alpha no nonsense female lead (this time Daniels played by...

True crime has never been bigger on television than it is now as audiences have become obsessed with shows like “Making a Murderer” and “The Jinx,” and films like “Amanda Knox” and “Casting JonBenet.” Into this...

“Welcome to Nice,” announces the flight attendant, as the plane taxies to a halt under the hot Mediterranean sun. Although the Nice airport is miles from the center of Cannes, the two faces of this 70th anniversary...

Thumbnails is a roundup of brief excerpts to introduce you to articles from other websites that we found interesting and exciting. We provide links to the original sources for you to read in their entirety.—Chaz Ebert1.”Chaz...

In space no one can hear you scream. No matter which version of “Alien” you watch, you can’t hear a huge amount of Jerry Goldsmith’s music, either. With new franchise entry “Alien: Covenant” coming in the...

With its stunning visual style, sly subversion science-fiction and horror genre conventions and one of the most terrifying and memorable monsters in screen history, “Alien” became an instant film classic from the moment it burst forth—literally—in...