Robert Abele

The second feature of writer-director Rungano Nyoni (“I Am Not a Witch”) shows her developing strongly with a story graced by buried trauma and female power.

A strong cast including Gretchen Mol, Patrick Wilson and Minnie Driver can’t save the writer-director-star from his instincts to dial down the heat.

Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke out with the ominous ‘Longlegs,’ his follow-up is jokier and less effective, piercing the jugular with splatter gags.

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Director Paulo Sorrentino won an Oscar for “The Great Beauty” but seems to have gotten lost — not unpleasurably — in the sex appeal of his new Neapolitan drama.

Liza Minnelli’s rise was fueled not only by hard work and a famously jealous mom but by a group of mentors who honed the EGOT winner’s gifts into showbiz stardom.

Sophie Thatcher coolly holds down the center of a horror-comedy that’s closer in tone to the entertaining silliness of ‘M3GAN’ than anything truly disturbing.

The movie serves as a profile of wildlife rehabilitator Terry Masear, devoted to repairing broken birds, while articulating virtues of compassion and hope.

Writer-director Sandhya Suri draws on her background in documentary filmmaking to arrive at a detail-laden police procedural about abuses of power in India.

Claressa Shields, whose ring talents led her to Olympic glory, had a hard time connecting with a sponsor, as this sensitive, after-the-glory movie dramatizes.