Tag: crime
Now Playing: SEND HELP, ARCO, SHELTER, BACK TO THE PAST
Plus: 'July Rhapsody,' 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'A Poet.'
Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101, And Character Work
A gritty-glossy (and subtly distressed) series of character posters dropped recently for Bart Layton's (The Imposter)'s adaptation of Don Winslow's (The Savages) heist potboiler about literal highway robbery, Crime 101, in anticipation of its February release. Framed in ultra close-up,...
Echoes: Why Is It Hard to Make a Good Pakistani Film? Is the Asian Market to Blame?
The Pakistani film industry is a budding industry that has a fragile infrastructure, high production costs relative to low box-office returns, and scarcity of screens, which has led the audience to rely more on TV-style narratives. Good storylines in TV...
BLACKOUT Exclusive Clip: Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Available Now on Apple TV And Amazon Prime
What begins as a peaceful venture into civilian life for a pair of military vets quickly devolves into chaos when a nuclear crisis brings danger to their doorstep, igniting an unexpected alliance with a potential enemy, as they struggle to protect their team and overcome the shadows of their past in a lawless new world.
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN: Season Two Arrives March 24th, First Trailer And Key Art Revealed
The second season of Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again arrives on Disney+ on March 24th. Today, they released the first trailer and key art. Marvel Television has unveiled a new trailer, key art and stills for the highly anticipated second...
Criterion in April 2026: JOHN SINGLETON'S HOOD TRILOGY, Bi Gan's RESURRECTION, Much More
Also: 'Eclipse Series 48: Kinuyo Tanaka Directs,' 'Point Blank,' 'Monty Python's Life of Brian,' 'Gilda,' 'Trouble in Paradise.'
Now Playing: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Rules in Blood
Plus: 'Night Patrol,' 'Space/Time,' 'Killer Whale,' 'All You Need Is Kill,' 'A Private Life,' 'Sound of Falling,' 'Maldoror.'
A PRIVATE LIFE Review: Jodie Foster Investigates Mystery. In French, No Less.
Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira and Mathieu Amalric also star in Rebecca Zlotowski's sixth feature, a mix of situational comedy and cozy mystery.
Playback: Nia DaCosta, Life on the Edge, from LITTLE WOODS to 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
Nia DaCosta gravitates toward stories -- whether intimate dramas, horror reinventions, literary adaptations, or major franchises -- where her characters are pushed into extreme situations. Across these films, human vulnerability and choice remain central, with complex interior lives sharpening as...
Opening This Week: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, NIGHT PATROL, SPACE/TIME, KILLER WHALE
Plus: 'All You Need Is Kill,' 'A Useful Ghost,' 'A Private Life,' 'Sound of Falling,' 'Maldoror.'
Now Streaming: TEHRAN S3, Spy Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Niv Sultan reprises her starring role in the thriller series, alongside Shaun Toub and Shila Omni, joined by Hugh Laurie.
Now Streaming: MARSHMALLOW, Deeper Than It Looks
Also debuting this week: strangeness in 'A Desert' on Shudder, Sydney Sweeney in 'Americana' on Starz.
Playback: Park Chan-wook, Pushed to the Limit, from JOINT SECURITY AREA to NO OTHER CHOICE
Park Chan-wook studies how vengeance and obsession can narrow the mind, reducing problems to a single, violent answer. The Korean director returns to characters consumed by the promise of moral clarity. Park is perhaps best known for his exacting compositions...
Opening This Week: ANACONDA Bites, NO OTHER CHOICE Hunts Jobs, THE PLAGUE Plunges Into Terror
Plus: 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' 'Marty Supreme,' 'Song Sung Blue,' 'The Choral.'
Criterion in March 2026: Tsui Hark's THE BLADE, Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, More
Springtime -- specifically, March 2026 -- brings many good gifts for home video enthusiasts from The Criterion Collection, beginning with Tsui Hark's superlative action epic The Blade (1995) in 4K (?!). I love the official description, so allow me to...
Exclusive: MALDOROR Trailer Debut, Fabrice du Welz's Gripping Police Procedural
Inspired by true events, Fabrice du Welz's police procedural Maldoror is heading to VOD and Digital next month, but we have the exclusive trailer debut ... now! Our own Martin Kudlac saw the film during the 2024 Venice Film Festival;...
HIS GIRL FRIDAY 4K Review: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell Wage One Battle After Another
Directed by Howard Hawks, Criterion's new 2-disc edition includes Lewis Milestone's 'The Front Page,' making for easy comparison between original and remake.
ROSEMEAD Review: True Story About a Mother's Love That's Too Centered on the Son
It's always odd when a film is based on a true story that is either old enough or simply wasn't major enough news that we don't all know it. Does it count as "spoilers" for the movie to direct people...
KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR Review: Cycles and Consequences
Uma Thurman stars in Quentin Tarantino's revenge epic.
Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION
Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
