M. Night Shyamalan uses his gifts for suspense and tension to craft an effective, albeit unsubtle body horror thriller.

Given late-career Fellini’s singular obsession with stentorian, stunt-like set piece spectacles—and concomitant disinterest in filmic storytelling—it is a wonder that Fellini’s Casanova is at all watchable.

A great deal of confidence both defines and, ultimately, undermines the promise of How to Deter a Robber.

Conor McMahon delivers tense monster thrills that escalate till the end credits, a precise construction that doesn’t continue a second more than necessary.

Huppert’s performance here is one of the great actress’s rare missteps.

It’s time for Cage to come back from the wilderness and take on roles like this, ones that once made him one of the best working actors in the business.

In 1954, Nicholas Ray’s star-studded Johnny Guitar refused to be pinned down and, in the process, shattered well-defined genre axioms and short circuited the brains of viewers.

No amount of Karen Gillan swagger, Lena Headey murdering guys with gun-knives or Angela Bassett doing her best “Raid 2’s Hammer Girl” impression can save this.

Morgan Neville’s documentary on the late celebrity shines a new light on a much-filmed icon but ultimately succumbs to seedy and heated recrimination.

Although the filmmakers eventually find a better balance, early on, the havoc comes not from the band, but from the director getting in the way.