Blockbusters seem to be right around the corner with the release of delayed major films like “F9,” “A Quiet Place, Part II,” and “In the Heights.” It leads to the question of what films from the last 15 months will still be remembered once all of the “big” movies start dominating the conversation. I feel…

A new home can be scary, if only because it’s still unfamiliar. That’s the scariest thing about “The Djinn,” a new horror movie about an evil genie who stalks a mute pre-teen boy. That sentence might seem convoluted, but there’s really not much plot in “The Djinn,” a genre exercise set primarily in a suburban…

Looney Tunes fans out there may fondly recall the 1957 short “Show Biz Bugs,” in which vaudevillians Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck engage in fierce applause-bait competition, ending with Daffy bringing down the house by literally immolating himself. (An act “that no other performer has dared to execute.”) Noting the crowd’s reaction, Bugs tells Daffy…

“Halston” is an empathetic portrait of someone you wouldn’t want to work for, be in love with, or trust a great deal of money with. The American women’s fashion designer, an “artist who liked to spend money,” was audacious to put it lightly, and so too is this compelling epic about ego that embeds you…

“The Killing of Two Lovers” begins with an undeniably powerful sequence set in an ordinary bedroom, in which a man stands over a sleeping couple while pointing a gun at them. Considering the title of the film, one might naturally expect the worst and even though that doesn’t happen—the man with the gun is shaken…

Brutal, sad, funny, and disarmingly sweet-natured, “Riders of Justice” is not so much a revenge movie as a movie about revenge. That might seem like a distinction without a difference until you get to the end of this surprising feature from writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen (“After the Wedding,” “Red Road,” “The Salvation“) and look back on every place…