The grey-bearded Hanif once lived a life of crime, and served time in prison for selling drugs. Now he’s changed. A Black Muslim, Hanif works as a casket-maker and ritual body washer in Newark, New Jersey. At the core of his solemn job lies a great irony, in that everyday he arrives at his gig…

Written and directed by Simon Barrett, “Seance” uses many familiar themes and story beats to tell a so-so scary story. With leaden performances and puzzling camerawork, it’s hard to feel in tune with the movie’s frights outside of the occasional jump scare.  Set in the all-girls boarding school of Fairfield Academy, a group of friends…

“The Dry,” the film adaptation of Jane Harper’s 2016 international bestseller of the same name, opens with aerial shots of the parched land in Kiewarra, a farming community somewhere outside Melbourne. But there’s clearly no farming going on in the arid expanse below, with its lifeless stretches of dried brown fields. These shots continue throughout…

Video game coverage at RogerEbert.com began with an examination of how the Capcom games and the Screen Gems films in the “Resident Evil” series have influenced one another, and other franchises. Now it’s time to return to this universe of unimaginable creatures. The “Resident Evil” franchise turns 25 this year, and it’s been an incredible quarter-century…

The spirit of Claude Lanzmann, whose monumental “Shoah” remains a nonpareil cinematic text on the Holocaust, lingers over and around “Final Account,” a film assembled by Luke Holland around interviews he conducted beginning in 2008. His aim, it says in a title card, was to track down and interrogate the last surviving “witnesses to the…

In my hometown of Dallas, Texas, there is a converted, three-screen art deco theater called the Inwood that I visited so often growing up that people assumed I worked there in violation of child labor laws (in college, I worked there legally). The last time I visited the place with my children, they were showing “Spider-Man: Homecoming” on two…