There’s less Christmas cheer than anti-Scrooge snark in “Jingle Bell Heist,” a lightweight crime caper doubling as yuletide romantic comedy. Cinematographer-turned-director Michael Fimognari, assuming both roles here, lends a pleasing look...

A sleeper hit in 2022, Jalmari Helander’s “Sisu” was a cartoonishly down-and-dirty adrenaline rush for action fans, not unlike the OG “Mad Max” decades earlier. That particular comparison grows even more...

“The Captive” offers the intriguing concept of “Don Quixote’s” author viewed through a lens more redolent of “Arabian Nights,” spinning tales to keep himself alive while a hostage of Moors in...

“The Wrecker” packs so many action-thriller cliches into its first few minutes — including Harvey Keitel screaming “You don’t mess with a man’s family!” at a bloodied bloke tied to a...

In 2011, director Sean McNamara, a Disney and Nickelodeon veteran with an iffy feature track record (see: “Bratz”) had a sleeper success with the inspirational biopic “Soul Surfer.” Its mix of...

Finding your short-term house rental double-booked proved a recipe for terror in Zach Cregger’s “Barbarian.” Faced with the same issue, the protagonists in Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s “Bone Lake” run a wider...