Just in time for Halloween comes Argentine shocker When Evil Lurks, a nastily blunt and mostly effective picture deploying an escalating series of demonic possessions as a metaphor for contagion, community distrust and questionable parenting. Modestly scaled yet pungently atmospheric, it has enough tension…
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Stick to the plan. Anticipate, don’t improvise. Trust no one: Words to live by and a mantra for a best in the business assassin whose carefully constructed world crashes down after a botched hit in David Fincher’s superbly constructed thriller The Killer. Played with…
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In the 206-minute opus that is Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the octogenarian maestro returns, exacting as ever, to his enduring six-decade career of thematically rich and technically complex canvases. In a picture about whether love and avarice can ever coexist, Scorsese…
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The Exorcist: Believer takes an earnest shot at updating a shopworn franchise that has not been good in a half-century. While it has a few things going for it, none of them, unfortunately, are in the horror department. The film is competently made with solid…
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Almodovar’s Strange Way of Life, a florid, 31-minute homage to spaghetti westerns wrapped up in an unabashedly sensuous bow, is both a genre tribute and mash-up delivered in high style and, courtesy of stars Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, a romantic confection that leaves…
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