Emerald Fennell’s "Wuthering Heights" arrives trailing quotation marks, caveats, and an almost aggressive insistence that this is not Wuthering Heights  so much as “ Wuthering Heights. ”  From the moment it was announced, the project promised provocation: Charli XCX on the soundtrack, latex textures in the production design, and a filmmaker whose reputation was built on weaponized aesthetics and bad behavior. What it ultimately delivers is something far stranger and more disappointing, a...

Sam Raimi’s Send Help  strands two people on a deserted island and then does the cruelest thing imaginable: it refuses to tell you, with any certainty, who deserves to be saved. What begins as a high-concept survival thriller quickly curdles into something sharper and stranger; a labor satire, a power-play psychodrama, and a gross-out morality tale that keeps slipping the moral high ground out from under your feet. It’s the most alive Raimi has felt in years, not because he’s louder or...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Jason Statham plays a man with a violent past who has chosen exile over absolution, only for circumstance to drag him back into the life he’s trying to escape. Shelter knows exactly how familiar that premise sounds, and to its credit, it doesn’t pretend otherwise. Instead, director Ric Roman Waugh leans into the well-worn grooves of the Statham action thriller and tries, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, to sand them down into something a little...