“Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger.” The screen opens on a valley of ash, gray and lifeless; it’s like God forgot to pay the color bill. Hope? None. Joy? Dead. It’s the cinematic equivalent of a hangover at 7 a.m. Enter K (Ryan Gosling), trudging into a protein farm to retire a ...

The beloved Naked Gun franchise awakens from its 30-year retirement and straps on the ol’ sidearm with yet another comedic take on police procedurals that brings both nostalgic laughs and modern sensibilities to an old gag  ...

Never Have I Ever is a scrappy little thriller that understands one universal truth: nothing good ever happens to a writer on a deadline. Sam, a screenwriter whose career is hanging by a thread, is already drowning in stress before the film really gets going — overdue pages, threats of   ...

"I'm a goddamn marvel of modern science." You know the scene that really sets the tone in director Milos Forman’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest? McMurphy strolling into the ward like he owns the place—grinning, cracking jokes, instantly poking at Nurse Ratched’s perfectly ...

OnlyFangs is the kind of horror-comedy that feels like someone dared two filmmakers to mash up The Lost Boys with a startup pitch meeting—and somehow they accepted. Paul Ragsdale and Angelica De Alba, the directors, confidently embrace the absurdity, creating a  ...

Filmmaker Francis Lawrence has built a career making kids suffer for our entertainment (The Hunger Games films, anyone?), and with The Long Walk he may have found his bleak masterpiece. Adapted from Stephen King’s first novel, this is a story where endurance isn’t  ...

Manor of Darkness kicks off like the world’s most ill-advised group project: a fake documentary crew heading into a remote English manor to score an artifact they probably saw on Antiques Roadshow once. Things that start with bad ideas rarely end well, you know. Laura,  ...

I sometimes wonder if there’s anything more terrifying for a filmmaker than being handed the keys to a beloved classic more than two decades after the original—especially when that classic happens to be Psycho. It’s the sort of assignment that could get a person laughed out of the room or institutionalized  ...