In the world of entertainment, indie films are often overlooked in favor of big-budget blockbusters. However, independent cinema remains a critical part of the film industry, offering unique storytelling, artistic risk-taking, and fresh perspectives that you won’t typically find in mainstream productions. Indie movie reviews are essential in shining a light on these hidden gems…

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In spite of clocking in at just 103 minutes, Dito Montiel’s family crime comedy “Riff Raff” is exceptionally long. Its all-star cast performs admirably, in a film that takes its time to get going, reveals and confronts little once it does, and uses none of its story swerves to build on its dramatic themes, or […]

The smartphone has evolved into one of the most essential gadgets in our lives, serving as everything from a communication tool to a mobile office, entertainment device, and camera. With so many models available on the market, choosing the right smartphone can be overwhelming. A thorough review helps consumers make informed decisions by evaluating key aspects of performance, features, design…

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It snuck up on us, but the American remake of a foreign film hardly seems like the totem to failed imagination that it once did. Being generous, it’s practically becoming a lost art in the age of franchise maintenance. How can an overseas breakthrough be rejiggered into a one-off multiplex programmer? Blumhouse’s latest genre play […]

Jack White’s four solo albums in the years that followed the breakup of the White Stripes are explorations of styles that show multiple other sides of his musicianship, veering into R&B and blues and experimental styles far from the straight-ahead, blistering rock and roll he’d laid down with the band that put him on the […]

A brutally violent directorial debut, Christopher Andrews’ rural Irish drama “Bring Them Down” veers between pitch-black humor and pervading melancholy. A tale of fathers, sons, and mutilated sheep, it toys with narrative point of view in “Rashomon”-like fashion, but keeps pressing questions of masculinity and cycles of sadness hovering just out of view. Fittingly, like […]

What you hear in "Road Diary" is the life force of Springsteen as an artist. He plays a number of new songs, but the fact that he’s been playing the old ones for as long as he has only adds to their layered majesty.

Both a bold historical drama and a penetrating psychological study of a delusional authoritarian, “Quisling -The Final Days” is perhaps the strongest work yet from veteran Norwegian helmer Erik Poppe (“1,000 Times Good Night”). It serves as a bookend of sorts to “The King’s Choice,” his 2016 hit, which dealt with the first three days of Germany’s […]

It’s been labeled as a "thriller," but I’d describe it more as a misanthropic survivalist "Robinson Crusoe" meets "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" meets "Lord of the Flies" with deranged footnotes by Friedrich Nietzsche.

A gorgeous computer-generated cartoon with a human heart beating beneath its sleek, state-of-the-art surface, DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” arrives at a time when the public seems more concerned than ever about being outsmarted by artificial intelligence. It’s somewhat ironic then that the movie, a lovely chosen-family fable adapted from the first book in Peter Brown’s […]

For as long as Danielle Deadwyler has had to wait to take the lead in an action film like “40 Acres,” it takes far less time for the “Till” star to demonstrate the full range of her strengths. Given the kind of introduction usually reserved for the likes of Clint Eastwood or Bruce Willis as […]

Created by real-life siblings Adam and Craig Malamut, and set in the fictional town of Glantontown, N.J., the animated “Universal Basic Guys” revolves around Mark and Hank Hoagies, two brothers both voiced by Adam Malamut. After being laid off from the local hot dog factory and being inducted into a new basic income program, Mark […]

“I pursued the glitz for a while. And I don’t regret it. But I know it wasn’t the real thing. It wasn’t the real thing.” This sentiment, which could almost be poetry or song lyrics, is spoken by Edna O’Brien in one of the final interviews she gave, which appears toward the end of director […]

Midway through its runtime, Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck” introduces a mantra of sorts, via a line of dialogue pulled from Stephen King’s eponymous story: “Would answers make a good thing better?” The implication therein is an emphatic “No,” which suits “The Haunting of Bly Manor” creator’s esoteric (and esoterically structured) drama on embracing […]

By now, boxing movies are such an overplayed genre, it’s tough for any filmmaker to innovate how the sport appears on screen. Sean Ellis’ “The Cut” finds a way around that problem by focusing on physical and psychological struggles outside the ring, especially the grueling battle to make weight. The film tries several things at […]

It’s been more than half a century since Helen Reddy sang, “I am woman, hear me roar!” but the line remains as good a mantra as any for Amy Adams’ ferocious lead performance in Marielle Heller’s tamer-than-expected “Nightbitch.” Identified only as “Mother” in the credits, Adams plays a woman who gave up her career to […]

Carlos Marqués-Marcet brings life to a grave situation in “They Will Be Dust,” realizing that when so many tiptoe around the subject of death, it might not be such a stretch to put an elderly couple in ballet shoes if they’re thinking it’s time to choose for themselves to shuffle off their mortal coil. The unconventional […]

"Never Too Late," co-directed by R.J. Cutler ("The September Issue," "Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry") and David Furnish, who is Elton’s husband, sets what has become Elton’s living-fast-and-bottoming-out agony-of-fame mythology in the context of a detailed and archivally rich account of that period. So watching it, it means something again.

There’s an enormous amount to describe, but very little to actually say about Kevin Costner’s bedraggled “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2,” the second of a planned four installments in his sprawling, multistranded western, that plays, after “Chapter 1″‘s muted reception in Cannes, out of competition on the final day of Venice. Doubling down […]