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… This is a movie where everyone in Johnson’s radius accuses his character of hating humanity, when the actor himself can’t help ingratiating himself to everything …

Fresh ideas are rare in the horror game, so it’s not surprising that Truth or Dare quickly devolves into a riff on the Final Destination films, which had Death wittily and methodically hunting those it failed to nab in plane crashes and other disasters

… What makes O.G. so fresh and appealing is how, while it’s a laugh riot, the characters are both written and portrayed as grounded, fully realized folk

Produced for half a million, and shot (by cinematographer Yuri Neyman) sometimes in Tsukerman’s own apartment, Liquid Sky has always been caught smack between delirious curio, avant-garde put-on, exploitation cheapie and naive masterpiece

Friday, April 13, a special, one-night event in Wynwood will honor one of Miami’s first queer spaces through poetry, films, and performance art.

Lost in Space is nearly Steven Spielberg airy, telling the story of a super-smart family selected to populate a Utopian space colony but who get lost somewhere along the way

Brad Anderson’s talky-smartish thriller Beirut, like the first half of Million Dollar Arm, sets Hamm’s sharpie loose in a country — in this case a fractious Lebanon — where the rules aren’t his

If the original cut was a couple of Desplechin distinct movies loaded into a woodchipper and then splatted all out on the screen, this new, longer Ismael’s Ghosts at least can be said to beef up the splats

The mode is comic frustration, the story centered on a reasonable man (played by Armie Hammer) frustrated at the eccentricities of a wild-haired genius (Geoffrey Rush, as the painter Alberto Giacometti)

Director John Curran has a varied career as a filmmaker. His previous film, Tracks, followed a woman (Mia Wasikowska) undertaking a solitary journey across the Australian desert. He’s probably best known for 2006’s The Painted Veil, a period drama starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts about a doctor dealing with marital strife…

The Tattoo Shop is an eight-episode docuseries for Facebook Watch that follows James and his former Miami Ink costar Chris Nuñez, more recently known as a judge on Paramount Network’s Ink Master, as they attempt to strike gold once again with the newly opened Liberty City Tattoo in Wynwood. James is an executive producer on the web series, which premiered March 15 and airs Thursdays.

Acrimony establishes that Robert is a cheating, lowdown dog and that Melinda has anger management problems that make the Hulk seem docile

The ground rules for this desolate new America: If you make any sort of sharp, unexpected sound, a mantis-like alien creature will zoom out of nowhere to swoop you away to an instant, grisly death.

Gemini is a shimmering puzzler that begins with an act of Land Ho!-esque palling around before warping into an unlikely detective story in the Cold Weather vein

Curran’s film, often enthralling and upsetting, represents a welcome break in the hagiographic treatment the longtime Lion of the Senate enjoyed in the years leading up to his 2009 death

When the third season begins, in a bit of meta-commentary, the Everlasting producers are scrambling to undo the effects of the bad PR the program endured on its last go-round

Though written by two men, Blockers smartly confronts the gendered double standards that have littered the genre for generations, as well as homophobia and other vehicles for predictable jokes

A splendid jewel box of a movie about rather grisly matters, the filmmaker’s latest represents another example of the clash between his playfully self-aware aesthetic and his growing obsession with our inhumanity

The movie follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an orphaned teenager living in Columbus, Ohio, in 2045, who spends pretty much all his time, along with everyone else in this world, inside a virtual universe called The Oasis …

… the film is dedicated to “all who have been persecuted for their faith,” which means that in today’s world, it’s pretty much dedicated to everybody

Besides telling the story of two rappers who eventually became casualties in the ‘90s ridiculous East Coast/West Coast rap beef, Unsolved is also a double-stacked, occasionally trite, police procedural

This Terror, developed by David Kajganich and certainly the best of AMC’s prestige-TV horror series, is always suspenseful, superbly acted, shrewdly paced and committed to the summoning up what the experience of Arctic isolation might actually have been like