There’s powerful “The Matrix” energy (minus the Bullet Time) surrounding “Bliss,” a sci-fi flick in which a sad-sack divorced dad named Greg (Owen Wilson) suddenly learns that everything and almost everyone around him – his dead-end job in a dumpy town, his angry boss (Steve Zissis), his estranged teenage son (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), the daughter […]

The title characters of “Malcolm & Marie,” an up-and-coming film director and his gorgeous, whippet-thin girlfriend, are just getting home from his latest premiere as the movie opens. It’s around 1 a.m. in Malibu, California, and as they enter the chic, low-slung house where they’re staying, they don’t say a word. Hiking up her spangly […]

Set in 1990, in a time before the ubiquity of cellphones and the kind of advanced, rapid DNA profiling that would come to revolutionize criminal forensics, “The Little Things” isn’t just a retro serial-killer thriller, but a deeply noirish one, harking back to not just “Seven,” but to the delicious moral ambiguity of black-and-white films […]

The film “Supernova” is a small and superficially tidy thing, notwithstanding the astronomical implications of its title, which augurs the sudden explosion of a star or – more metaphorically – some brilliant light, often heralding its extinguishment. It seems, at first, an odd allusion for a road-trip story that takes place largely inside a boxy […]

‘Into the Abstract’ runs through Feb. 27 at the Rockland gallery.

Doug Liman’s ‘Locked Down,’ one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is like our own quarantine experiences.

‘Tory Fair: Portable Window’ and ‘Parallax/Geography’ are running through Feb. 28.