Film-Forward

The humor here is so dry, it’s arid.

The dancers at Johnsons strip club know how to put on a proper striptease, and they sure give those polls a workout.

Kantemir Balagov’s extraordinary second film opens in postwar Leningrad, where survivors are still reeling from the devastation.

An unconventional origin story of the iconic Batman villain.

The actual nuts-and-bolts production of the Ridley Scott 1979 science fiction horror staple is only one piece of this examination.

A smart and colorful animated movie set in Paris of the Belle Époque, a golden age of scientific progress and fertility in the arts.

Pedro Almodóvar returns with a lovely, meandering, melancholy delight of a film.

A dark screwball comedy set in backwoods Alabama.

A gang of teenage Jersey boys spend their summer clashing with rich kids, wooing girls, and breaking into vacation homes and stealing valuables.