Ballad of a Small Player

A gambler in Macau known as Lord Doyle (Colin Farrell) faces mounting debts, but is charmed by a credit broker (Fala Chen). In Edward Berger’s hands, Lawrence Osborne’s psychological thriller…

The Home

When Monika (Anki Lidén) suffers a stroke, her son (Philip Oros) has her transferred to a care facility, but a mysterious entity seems to have followed her. A horror movie…

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

John Doe (Shon Greenblatt), one of the teens who have survived Freddy Krueger’s (Robert Englund) murder spree in Springwood, Ohio, returns to the town together with a psychiatrist (Lisa Zane)…

John Candy: I Like Me

A thoroughly likable documentary about a thoroughly likable man. We’re taken back to John Candy’s early days in Canada, from finding his place on Second City to landing a role…

Bugonia

Conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) and his intellectually disabled cousin (Aidan Delbis) kidnap the CEO (Emma Stone) of a pharmaceutical company and tell her to contact her people, an…

Confessions of a Swedish Man

The search for what ails modern men and boys continues, often in a condescending manner that leaves them wide open for far-right charlatans who prey on their sense of isolation…

A House of Dynamite

In Kathryn Bigelow’s first film in eight years, she takes on the global nuclear threat, which was depicted to great effect in the classic Fail-Safe (1964). There’s no longer a…

The Perfect Neighbor

It could have been a penetrating, thorough examination of the problematic stand-your-ground law, but this documentary prefers to settle for an emotionally stirring case to illustrate the law’s challenges. It…

Legacy

A feature film version of a 2023 TV series that chronicled the unusual relationship between Sweden and some of America’s greatest jazz stars. Starting in the 1950s, musicians like Dexter…

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

40 years after directing a seminal rockumentary, director Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) finds out whatever happened to the former members of Spinal Tap. I had my doubts, but this is…