“The Royal Hotel” is a horror movie but don’t expect any jump-cuts, scary masks or serial killers. It’s more like the horror that dawns on a frog when it realizes it is being boiled alive. Filmmaker ...

Another gift from South Australia, after the recent hit “Talk to Me,” “The Royal Hotel” is a cautionary trip to a dark and arid corner of mindless, toxic masculinity. Hanna (Julia Garner, “The ...

The walls are scabbed. The strip lighting is dingy. The decor is cheap: liquor bottles and dead snakes pickled in jars. Kitty Green’s queasily gripping “The Royal Hotel” is set in a location neither ...

Two young women struggle to handle the obstreperous patrons of a remote Australian pub in this coolly calibrated thriller. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...