“Something terrible is coming,” shouts a frightened biologist who has seen the evil up close. “It’s still uncurling from the long-ago moment. I know it, and it’s going to kill us all every one of us.” ...

The actor gives a mournful performance (and still, of course, kicks ass) in a movie with a canny underworld atmosphere and too many familiar devices. In memory, most of them blur together, and it’s ...

Credits: Directed by Hans Petter Moland, starring Liam Neeson, Ron Perlman, Frankie Shaw and Daniel Diemer. Rating/runtime: R for violence, language throughout, some sexual content/nudity and drug use ...

Listen to this story and more on our podcast, Here & Now Anytime. Ten years after his celebrated “Southern Reach” trilogy, novelist Jeff VanderMeer is out with a surprise prequel. “Absolution” tells ...

Liam Neeson plays a regretful gangster with a serious medical condition in this drab, downbeat action movie. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Hans Petter Moland directs the contemplative thriller about a Boston underworld enforcer seeking to atone for his failings as a parent, also featuring Yolonda Ross, Frankie Shaw and Ron Perlman. By ...

Bethesda novelist Alice McDermott is on the hunt for “sparkly loaded things,” little golden question marks with wings that hover tantalizingly before her mind’s eye. There’s only one sure way to pin ...