From a distance, the Bone Temple still looks like a warning, a pagan structure erected to repel the curious and the hopeful alike. But “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” isn’t interested in keeping us out. Nia DaCosta’s ferocious sequel drags us straight inside, insisting that whatever future humanity has left will be decided not by the infected, but by the rituals we invent to live with them. Where Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” treated the Bone Temple as a symbolic endpoint, a place of...

What does it mean to faithfully dramatize recent history when the facts themselves are already stranger, messier, and more revealing than fiction? That tension sits at the center of Dead Man’s Wire , Gus Van Sant’s return to true-crime filmmaking and a movie that’s at its most compelling when it sticks close to the ugly particulars of one man’s grievance, and most frustrating when it reshapes them into something smoother, safer, and less specific. The real Tony Kiritsis was a local...

Johannes Roberts’ Primate  is the kind of movie that knows exactly what aisle it lives in at the video store, and it has no interest in wandering elsewhere. This is not prestige horror, nor is it elevated, metaphor-forward genre filmmaking. This is a movie about a chimpanzee going feral and tearing people apart, and Roberts wastes very little time pretending otherwise. If you came looking for ape mayhem, Primate  is happy to take your money, pat you on the back, and point you toward a jawless...