A mix of films, from tentpoles, sequels, horror films, to specialty cinema, comes our way just ahead of awards season.
Fall film preview: 25 highlights to watch for
A genre that dare not speak its name in ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’
Writer and director Jane Schoenbrun bewilders and bedazzles with a deconstruction of classic '80s slasher flicks.
A pilot searches for a rumored utopia in the post-apocalypse in ‘The Dog Stars’
Director Ridley Scott delivers a competent, yet forgettable entry into the prolific survivalist thriller genre.
Jason Statham stars as a working-class hero with a mysterious backstory in ‘Mutiny’
In a quest for personal vengeance, a body guard at sea needs to punch, kick and shoot his way to justice.
Harvard Film Archive reopens with a retrospective of Graham Greene adaptations
The program begins with "The Fallen Idol," an under-seen masterpiece from the British filmmaker Carol Reed.
The Finding Bright Film Festival pledges to ‘make Boston weirder’
The Arlington International Film Festival renames, rebrands and recenters its focus on local and experimental art.
‘The End of Oak Street’ is a movie for the ‘they don’t make movies like they used to’ crowd
A suburban family’s domestic tranquility is threatened by marital strife, neighborhood bullies and dinosaurs in this sci-fi adventure.
A whodunit in feudal Japan pushes genre boundaries in ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’
With the help of a captive samurai, Lord Murashige must solve a murder mystery in order to keep his political alliances together.
Six top picks for the second half of the Boston French Film Festival
The festival, celebrating its 30th anniversary, takes as this year's theme "art, identity and cultural memory."
Dominic Sessa portrays an obnoxious, if loveable, asshole in the Bourdain biopic, ‘Tony’
Before he became an enfant terrible of the culinary world, Anthony Bourdain was a terrible infant in Provincetown.