Spanish artist Pascual Sisto’s fable of a boy holding his family hostage is well made, but it revolves around a tiresome cop-out

A review of three films that premiered on the second day of Sundance 2021, including the latest from Ben Wheatley.

Anthony Lane reviews David Lowery’s fantasy film “The Green Knight,” a retelling of the medieval Gawain poem, featuring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, and Ralph Ineson, and “John and the Hole,” Pascual Sisto’s psychological thriller starring Charlie Shotwell, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle, and Taissa Farmiga.

From the bizarre to the sublime.

Cinema has a long history with bad seeds or sociopathic children with a vicious streak. The archetype boasts no shortage of iconic children with corrupted

It’s exciting, quietly volatile stuff that digs refreshingly deep into the fears of the coming-of-age genre.

A disturbed kid engineers his own Home Alone in the eerie allegory John And The Hole

Pascual Sisto's John and the Hole stars Charlie Shotwell, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle and Taissa Farmiga.

A teenager coolly assumes control of his family in this satirical thriller from Spanish artist Pascual Sisto

Marketing materials for the new film “John and the Hole” call it “a coming-of-age fable.” And some critics say it's a thriller. But the darkly comic movie would more accurately be described as the nihilistic machinations of a tiny psychopath.

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A new film from Birdman writer Nicolás Giacobone is a horror thriller about a kid who dumps his parents in a hole. Young actor Charlie Shotwell gives a frightening performance, while Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle, Taissa Farmiga round out the family cast. But it’s the film’s ideas that will terrify you.