The Bride! certainly isn’t ashamed of being bold and different, yet the payoff for its acts of rebelliousness doesn’t always match its ambition.

This story could be akin to a modern Western—the story of a little guy against the system.

Even if you can guess who committed the deed, the “how it happened” part will still keep audiences in suspense.

Another in Kelly Reichardt’s canon of deceptively modest stories of ordinary people set within a specific place and time.

The film wouldn’t work nearly as well without Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst and their palpable chemistry.

Director Park Chan-wook takes as his blueprint Donald E Westlake’s lean and mean bloodbath The Ax (1997) and makes the macabre and cynical tale his own.

A shimmering example of a genre that has been resurrected in an unexpected way, this time as a tropical noir.

Although everyone involved was clearly having fun, that enjoyment doesn’t fully translate to the screen.

Ron Howard’s new film serves up a more-than-satisfying four-course meal of gripping drama, morbid true crime, and voluptuous entertainment.