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There are 9 million people living in Mexico City and only 45 emergency ambulances operated by the government. The densely populated capital city has been overrun by private ambulances competing for business, just like the one run by the Ochoa family in “Midnight Family” from director Luke Lo…

Sam Mendes, the director behind the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” took home an Oscar for his 1999 directorial debut “American Beauty.” 20 years later he’s poised to do it again with a film inspired by the World War I stories told by his grandfather. “1917” is an immersive experie…

Anyone who’s ever read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” should appreciate the latest spin on racial injustice in the South from writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton (“Short Term 12”). Cretton adapts lawyer-turned-author Bryan Stevenson’s memoir “Just Mercy” with a talented cast deliveri…

In a prison film, the warden is usually portrayed as the villain. Who could forget Strother Martin in “Cool Hand Luke,” Eddie Albert in “The Longest Yard” or Barbara Steele in the Roger Corman-produced “Caged Heat?”

Writer-director Greta Gerwig gives this generation a new version of Louisa May Alcott’s timeless novel featuring the close-knit March sisters played by Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson and Eliza Scanlen.

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The dark and humorous tale of a con artist family is filled with plenty of tension, heartache and a blood-soaked finale that’s sure to leave you stunned. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho executes the film’s twists and turns impeccably. A flawless example of filmmaking.

Love destroys and love heals in the third film by Houstonian Trey Edward Shults. The writer-director explores the subject with antithetical narratives as a promising high school athlete (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is overpowered by love which sets his trajectory down a path of self-destruction. Ac…

Eighty-nine-year-old Clint Eastwood continues the “Heroes” phase of his career with his latest release “Richard Jewell.”

Each year the Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) recognizes another independently financed film shot in Texas with the presentation of the TIFA (Texas Independent Film Award). Last year, “An American in Texas” directed by local filmmaker Anthony Pedone was one of the five distinguished film…

Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman” received the most nominations for the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards which take place on Sunday January 12 at 6:00 pm CST and broadcast live on The CW Television Network. Taye Diggs will once again host this year’s star-studded event from th…

Todd Haynes, the director that brought us “Carol,” “Far from Heaven” and “Velvet Goldmine,” opts for a good old-fashioned corporate thriller with “Dark Waters” based on the 2016 New York Times article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” by Nathaniel Rich.

There is a scene in “Marriage Story” that is devastating to watch as Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver tear each other down as words, like daggers dipped in venom, pierce the hearts of two people who were once very much in love. The two actors play a couple in the midst of a nasty divorce i…

There’s something special about father-daughter movies. First, there aren’t enough of them, and second, there are some really good ones, from “Paper Moon” and “On Golden Pond” to recent films “Hearts Beat Loud” and “Leave No Trace.”

You’ve got to give it to Mike Flanagan the creator behind the Netflix Original series "The Haunting of Hill House." It takes a lot of audacity to tackle Stephen King’s 2013 sequel to “The Shining” and follow up Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic, which we all know King despised. But the w…

Houston, we have a problem. Natalie Portman goes off the deep end in the feature debut from Noah Hawley creator of the FX shows “Legion” and “Fargo.” Loosely based on real-life NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak who drove 900-miles while wearing a diaper (for less pit stops) to attack her astronaut l…

Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen are a modern-day Tom and Huck in the Mark Twain inspired “The Peanut Butter Falcon” from writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. Brimming with adventure and spirit, the film’s renowned cast is overshadowed by newcomer Gottsagen, an actor with Down …

Six diverse fans from around the world come together in the new film directed by Depeche Mode’s longtime collaborator and creative director Anton Corbijn. Concert footage from the band’s Berlin, Germany stop on the 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour is intermixed with interviews and candid video o…

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The names have been changed but “Honey Boy” is based on Shia LaBeouf’s childhood as a young actor and what we see on screen is far from glamorous.

As a fan of the show, I can attest that “Downton Abbey” the film is a treat for devotees of the British television series. Newbies will still be able to enjoy the lighthearted fare that takes place at the real life Highclere Castle which substitutes for the show’s fictional Yorkshire estate,…

There’s nothing like a good LAPD action-thriller to entertain you for a couple of hours. “Training Day,” “Colors’” “L.A. Confidential,” and “Heat” come to mind, and of course hearing Jack Webb deliver the iconic lines "This is the city--Los Angeles, California." "I carry a badge." "My name's…

“Jojo Rabbit” won’t connect with everyone. But if it does, the film by Taika Waititi (“Thor: Ragnarok”) will take you on a rollercoaster ride filled with emotional ups and downs. Laughter turns into heartbreak in the same spirit as the director’s 2016 film “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” which f…

For moviegoers who shy away from documentaries, filmmaker Dan Krauss remains resolute to get the story out of 21-year-old Adam Winfield, a U.S. soldier who witnessed atrocities committed by his platoon against Afghanistan civilians, that he’s turned his 2014 documentary “The Kill Team” into …

Co-writers David Michôd and Joel Edgerton separate King Henry V from Shakespeare as the two venture into new territory with Timothée Chalamet leading the onslaught as Prince Hal, the boy who would be king. Edgerton pulls double duty by playing Sir John Falstaff as a weary but valiant warrior…

Cynthia Erivo’s spirited performance as the heroic Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery to become a freedom fighter for the Underground Railroad (and who should be on the $20 bill right now) is the highlight of the first biopic about the American abolitionist, suffragist, political activist an…

Robert Eggers returns with his sophomore offering after delivering one of the best horror films of the decade, 2016’s “The Witch.” Set in the 1890s just off the coast of Maine, the black and white film stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as a couple of lightkeepers, one a crusty veteran …

Based on Alvin Schwartz’s series of children’s books frightfully illustrated by Stephen Gammell, “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” comes to life with the help of executive producer Guillermo del Toro under the direction of Norwegian filmmaker André Ovredal who brought us “Trollhunter” and …