Grief is an untapped vein in “An Unquiet Grave,” a modestly-scaled horror movie whose dark mood reflects an equally bleak premise: how far would you go if you thought that you could use a family member to cope with your private grief? That’s the crux of this supernatural character study, though it’s often hard to…

Between the winding down of the first neo-noir cycle popularized by New Hollywood titles like “Chinatown” and “The Long Goodbye,” and before the rise of the erotic thriller as a recognizable genre with entries like “Fatal Attraction” and “Basic Instinct,” there was an entire class of films that had their roots in neo-noir but considerably…

“The Mysterious Benedict Society” imagines a cloudy world not too different than our own, albeit with bright pastel clothes, 1960s technology, and two Tony Hales. It may look like a Wes Anderson movie (“The Grand Budapest Hotel” in particular), but the human beings inside this storybook are a loving reflection: they are divided, they’ve lost touch with truth, and…

Our dreams as children are often not the same as our dreams when we’re teenagers, and our dreams when we’re teenagers are often not the same as our dreams when we’re adults. Growing pains are difficult for everyone, let alone when you add in the pressures of competitive sports and housing insecurity, as experienced by…

After having to take a year off, much like the rest of us, New York’s Tribeca Film Festival has just wrapped up its long-awaited return. This year’s festival presented more than 120 feature films over the course of 12 days, covering everything from big-ticket items like the Opening Night presentation of “In the Heights” to…

It’s a scam at first sight. Flustered by a bad day, comedian Andrea Singer (Iliza Shlesinger) bumps into a well-meaning stranger at the airport. That kind stranger, Dennis (Ryan Hansen), happens to sit by her on their flight to Los Angeles, and soon, an unlikely friendship forms between the comedian and the hedge fund manager.…