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"Crumb Catcher," a first feature by writer-director Chris Skotchdopole that's being ushered into the world by low-budget filmmaking eminence Larry Fessenden, has a vaguely familiar feel. There's a nasty buzz to the plot and the performances that recalls old bad-vibes character studies like "The Last Seduction" and "The Honeymoon Killers," and ...Read more

The most special of the many special effects in "Twisters" isn't what you'd expect. It's not the howling winds, the towering thunder spouts, the hollering woman getting yanked up into a stormy sky by a bunch of bad weather. No, the biggest kick in this movie is the easy chemistry between its two stars -- the smiley and inordinately likable Glen ...Read more

"Longlegs," a combination supernatural thriller and gritty police procedural by writer-director Oz Perkins, mines elements from a host of well-known films, among them David Fincher's "Zodiac" (there's a sinister code) and "Se7en" (sinister boxes), and the pictures that make up the "Conjuring" universe (sinister dolls). But the movie's primary ...Read more

Fans of the "Quiet Place" franchise will get a reasonable ration of what they presumably crave in the story's third installment. Which is to say they'll see herds of rampant space aliens scampering up the sides of buildings and dropping from the sky and generally tearing around like the world's biggest mutant basketball team in a hard-fought ...Read more

Like the rest of us, good filmmakers sometimes screw up. David Cronenberg has made several canon-level movies ("Videodrome," "Dead Ringers," etc.), but his mopey 2012 take on the Don DeLillo novel "Cosmopolis," which starred Robert Pattinson, was anti-watchable. Similarly, when the great screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ("Adaptation," "Being John ...Read more

Imagine if nobody ever died. Imagine how crowded the world would be. Imagine the decline in the quality of cocktail chat. In Norwegian director Thea Hvistendahl's "Handling the Undead," people do die in traditional ways, but then they come right back, as if not wanting to miss anything. As you'd hope, this creates problems.

The movie in some ...Read more