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June 20, 2024306
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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July 4, 2024416
Space Cadet
You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…
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July 19, 2024574
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…
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June 20, 2024260
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
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June 20, 2024267
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024310
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…
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July 19, 2024424
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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July 12, 2024338
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 20, 2024316
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024273
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 20, 2024253
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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June 20, 2024252
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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July 10, 2024449
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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June 20, 2024257
You Can’t Stay Here
Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…
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August 23, 2024604
The Becomers
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…
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June 20, 2024290
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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June 20, 2024317
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024262
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…
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June 20, 2024265
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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June 20, 2024300
Disappearing act at 37,000 feet
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…
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June 20, 2024297
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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August 23, 2024636
Decoded
The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…
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June 20, 2024264
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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June 20, 2024382
Concrete Utopia
In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…
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August 1, 2024488
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…
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August 2, 2024377
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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July 12, 2024340
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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June 20, 2024305
Last act haunts ‘Hide and Seek’
A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…
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August 23, 2024570
The Crow
Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…
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August 9, 2024542
Hollywood Black
The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…
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July 26, 2024434
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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August 14, 2024476
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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June 20, 2024265
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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August 2, 2024537
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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June 20, 2024257
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024327
This train’s got the disappearin’ Western blues
James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…
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June 20, 2024260
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 20, 2024277
The Seeding
“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…
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June 20, 2024261
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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June 20, 2024248
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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July 12, 2024453
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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June 20, 2024259
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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July 26, 2024437
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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June 20, 2024536
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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June 19, 2024252
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 20, 2024247
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 20, 2024265
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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June 20, 2024284
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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August 9, 2024559
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 20, 2024248
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 20, 2024409
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 19, 2024263
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024260
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of…
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August 9, 2024476
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…
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June 20, 2024278
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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June 20, 2024257
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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June 20, 2024272
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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August 23, 2024587
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 19, 2024262
Tuesday
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…
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June 21, 2024425
Trigger Warning
Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…
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June 20, 2024254
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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June 20, 2024247
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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June 20, 2024260
The Blue Angels
“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…
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June 20, 2024290
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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July 26, 2024465
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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June 20, 2024279
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 20, 2024321
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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June 20, 2024262
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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June 20, 2024272
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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June 20, 2024255
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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July 12, 2024420
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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June 20, 2024258
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024277
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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June 20, 2024313
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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June 20, 2024245
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 20, 2024255
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 21, 2024434
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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August 2, 2024573
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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June 20, 2024271
Love Lies Bleeding
Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…
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July 12, 2024493
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…