Matthew Jacobs

Yu’s debut feature, ‘Sleep,’ is a nail-biting horror movie with a dark sense of humor.

The best true-crime documentaries bring principled reportage to the intrigue they chronicle, giving equal or greater weight to the victims as to the perpetrators whose psychology seizes our collective imagination. This list attempts to encapsulate the format’s varying modes, from serious digests to seedy diversions; although one person’s true-crime trash is another’s treasure, these recommendations steer clear of the genre’s tawdriest impulses. All of our picks are available to stream or rent so…

The final moments of I Saw the TV Glow hit like a gut punch. Sweet, anxious Owen (Justice Smith) emits an existential wail while facilitating a kid’s birthday party, after which he stumbles into a bathroom. Peering into the mirror, he slices open his chest to reveal the blue light of a TV screen. Then he seals himself back up and staggers through the noisy arcade where he works, apologizing over and over. But the customers can’t hear his sorries; they don’t even return his gaze. With a jolt, the…

The 37-year-old director can handle minor hazards. Schoenbrun, who uses they/them pronouns, makes enigmatic art films that double as analogies about the transgender experience. Their debut narrative feature, 2022’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, was a restrained psychodrama about a lonely teenager who takes part in an online role-playing game said to distort participants’ bodies. It was strange and sullen, the sort of slow-burning indie that’s good for street cred but not commercial fanfar…

The Von Erichs, the storied Texas family at the movie’s center, experienced so much misfortune that many people decided they were cursed. One after the other, five of the six Von Erich brothers—most of them talented wrestlers vying for a world championship title—died before age 35. Three of those deaths were suicides. The men’s unflappable manager-father (played by Mindhunter’s Holt McCallany) had drilled into them a hard-boiled philosophy: Victory should be their only priority. They didn’t know…

“It’s a real privilege to make movies, but to make movies about your childhood heroes is a lifelong dream,” Durkin said while introducing the film at the Texas Theatre, an old-fashioned repertory cinema whose marquee announced, “Welcome to Von Erich Country.” Dallas proved an appropriate backdrop for The Iron Claw’s debut. Much of the crowd seemed familiar with the real-life Texas wrestlers at its center, applauding even louder for Kevin Von Erich than for stars like White, Zac Efron, Harris Dic…

Bridget Everett and company preview the second season of their HBO cult favorite—a show that’s low-stakes in all the best ways.

The 31-year-old Belgian filmmaker tackles the “crisis of connection” among teen boys in his second film, now an international feature Oscar nominee.

The greatest nonfiction films cinema has to offer, from ‘Grey Gardens’ to ‘Grizzly Man’ and everything in between.

The refurbished double-decker is now a tourist attraction and sometimes available for Airbnb rentals. Here’s how its eccentric original design came together.

The 31-year-old Belgian director wants to spark conversations with his new film, about a relationship between teenage boy that deteriorates in heartbreaking fashion.

Mark Pellington’s 1997 Going All the Way has been recut and rereleased a quarter-century later. See exclusive Polaroids from the set, and hear what’s changed.

How do you get a donkey to cross a perilous bridge? Cast six of them, and hope for the best.

After an intense season finale, Gleeson speculates on where his character could go, Kenny Chesney, and what it was like shooting that scene.

Whether you seek things that go bump in the night or a psychological thriller, here are the most hair-raising horror movies ever made. Scared yet?

Jim J. Bullock on working with the infamous evangelical, and his first response when the idea was floated to him: “My honest-to-Jesus reaction was ‘She’s fucking crazy.’ And he said, ‘Well, would you meet with her?’ I said, ‘Oh, my God, yes, of course.’”

Designer Alex Bovaird details how she conceived the wealthy ensembles on HBO’s hit show.

Bartlett, who plays Armond on the HBO series, reflects on his character’s fate and the show’s complicated class satire.