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July 16, 2024504
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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June 20, 2024317
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024307
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story
A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…
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June 20, 2024267
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
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June 20, 2024275
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…
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June 20, 2024263
Under Paris
Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…
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August 23, 2024647
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-eAT
Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…
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June 20, 2024254
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…
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June 20, 2024286
State of Consciousness
It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…
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August 2, 2024532
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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June 19, 2024267
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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August 16, 2024657
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
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August 23, 2024605
The Becomers
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…
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June 20, 2024269
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 20, 2024289
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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June 20, 2024253
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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June 20, 2024318
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024289
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
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June 20, 2024268
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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July 12, 2024444
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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August 2, 2024532
Doctor Jekyll
The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…
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June 20, 2024291
Out of Darkness
Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…
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June 20, 2024270
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…
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July 19, 2024428
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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June 20, 2024239
Infested
Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…
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August 23, 2024588
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 20, 2024268
Destroy All Neighbors
A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…
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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 28, 2024338
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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July 12, 2024549
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024261
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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July 12, 2024341
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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August 2, 2024538
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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July 12, 2024421
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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August 23, 2024613
Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…
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August 7, 2024423
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 19, 2024254
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…
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June 20, 2024266
Flipside
The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…
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June 19, 2024276
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 20, 2024247
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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July 5, 2024549
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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July 19, 2024428
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 20, 2024269
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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June 20, 2024275
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 19, 2024257
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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August 14, 2024478
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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June 20, 2024301
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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June 20, 2024264
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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June 21, 2024385
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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June 20, 2024261
The Blue Angels
“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…
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June 20, 2024270
Mayhem!
An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…
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June 20, 2024260
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 20, 2024268
Club Zero
Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…
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June 20, 2024265
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, 2024268
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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July 26, 2024467
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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June 20, 2024259
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024251
What can you really do about it if the world ends later tonight?
“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…
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June 20, 2024276
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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July 26, 2024439
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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July 26, 2024432
Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…
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June 19, 2024250
This Closeness
In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…
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June 28, 2024428
Music
Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…
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June 20, 2024293
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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June 26, 2024389
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 20, 2024262
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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July 12, 2024454
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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August 9, 2024477
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 19, 2024253
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 20, 2024278
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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June 19, 2024244
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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August 9, 2024513
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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August 9, 2024415
Duchess
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…
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June 28, 2024458
Last Summer
With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…
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June 20, 2024329
Share?
Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…
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June 20, 2024249
The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…
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July 12, 2024340
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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August 8, 2024427
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 20, 2024266
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, 2024242
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…