Guy Lodge

With British cinema overrun as ever with grimy London gangland tales, there is precious little territory that hasn't yet been covered within the genre: Even the narrative tension between crime...

The word "Xenia" refers to the Greek tradition of generous hospitality toward strangers - an appropriate title, then, for a film that gladly accommodates all manner of curiosities, from giant...

The words "release the hounds" take on vibrant new meaning in "White God," a thrillingly strange update of the "Lassie Come Home" formula in which one lost mutt's incredible journey...

Even in a contemporary film culture where no idea seems too thin to try twice, the arrival of two Yves Saint Laurent biopics in the space of a five months...

Not a chamber piece in the most literal sense, but with all the poky airlessness that its title implies, "The Blue Room" represents a disappointing return to Cannes for actor-turned-auteur...

Necessity is the mother of invention, which is why Marc Webb's 2012 superhero do-over "The Amazing Spider-Man," for all its polished proficiency and kicky star casting, felt so perfunctory: Rebooting...

Sibling rivalry is kept at a low, slow simmer in "Asteroid," a fractiously intimate family drama in which the scabs of adult orphanhood are rather savagely picked. The sophomore feature...

The Florida sun has rarely seemed harsher than it does in "Ectotherms," a bristling, defiantly lo-fi debut feature from multi-tasking filmmaker Monica Pena that offers a pithily poetic view of...

Two decades after serving as semi-light relief for Big Apple newspaper editors in the heady days of the John Gotti trial, the richly improbable story of Tommy and Rosemarie Uva...

"I use antlers in all of my decorating," sang Gaston, the lunkish villain of Disney's 1991 "Beauty and the Beast," in a self-titled ode to macho excess. He'd no doubt...