Strays offers everything a canine lover could possibly want: dogs peeing, dogs pooping, dogs humping, dogs puking, dogs talking dirty, dogs getting high, dogs…well, you get the idea. Although the film’s plot concerns an intrepid group of pooches traveling a far distance while facing numerous obstacles, this raunchy live-action comedy …

If it’s true that youth is wasted on the young, then so are friendly aliens. Sure, the kids in E.T. had a great time with their pint-sized buddy from another planet, and so have countless other children in family-themed sci-fi films over the years. But it’s about time that seniors …

Early in the new animated film directed by Jeff Rowe, the title characters, all teenagers, blow off their grocery-shopping errand to go watch an outdoor screening of the classic comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It seems exactly the sort of thing that fun-loving adolescents would do on a beautiful summer …

If you’ve ridden the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland even once, you’ll recognize many of its key elements in the new Disney film based on the iconic attraction. And if you’ve ridden it multiple times, you’ll have trouble keeping up with the myriad Easter eggs paying visual tribute to its …

If you’re anything like me, you probably haven’t given too much thought to what happened to the Lambert family after the end of 2013’s Insidious: Chapter 2. After all, their story seemed to have come to a definitive close, and even the filmmakers didn’t seem to particularly care since they …

In the opening scene of Stephan Komandarev’s harrowing drama, Blaga’s Lessons, an elderly Bulgarian woman is making a down payment on a burial plot for her recently deceased husband, a former police officer. She promises the somewhat sleazy cemetery salesman that she’ll get the rest of the money to him …

A gritty slice of neorealism that would have fit in perfectly during the peak period of the Iranian New Wave, Empty Nets (Leere Netze) marks an impressive feature debut for Iranian German filmmaker Behrooz Karamizade. Premiering at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, this drama about a financially impoverished twentysomething …

You didn’t think we’d seen the last of Tyler Rake, did you? The black-ops mercenary played by Chris Hemsworth was the hero of 2020’s Extraction, one of Netflix’s most watched movies ever. So it’s hardly a surprise that the tough-as-nails, macho character returns in the unimaginatively titled Extraction 2, reuniting …

The new animated film premiering on Netflix starts exactly the way you’d think a fairy tale should. The first words we hear, after all, are, “A long, long time ago, a kingdom lived in peace.” But don’t be fooled. Nimona, based on ND Stevenson’s acclaimed graphic novel, is about as …

For a movie with an expletive in its title, Bucky F*cking Dent sure displays a sentimental streak. In David Duchovny’s film based on his well-received 2016 novel, a dying, and diehard, Red Sox fan is comforted by his son and friends who make up stories about imaginary victories — and …

Cinematic superheroes have been going through a rough patch lately. Already this year, both Shazam and Ant-Man proved a bit at sea in their latest adventures. So it comes as a relief to report the trilogy-capping Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. achieves what it sets out to do, which …

The creators of the new film starring Toni Collette aren’t exactly shy in revealing their high concept. The ads announce, “From suburban mom to mafia don,” and you can practically hear the phrase being uttered during the pitch meeting. Unfortunately, while it’s welcome to see the versatile Collette given the …