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June 20, 2024217
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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June 20, 2024206
K-19: The Widowmaker
Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…
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June 19, 2024203
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 20, 2024244
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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June 20, 2024270
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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July 19, 2024406
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…
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July 16, 2024441
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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August 22, 2024556
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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August 7, 2024361
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 28, 2024453
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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June 20, 2024202
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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June 20, 2024201
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024238
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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June 20, 2024217
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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June 19, 2024209
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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June 20, 2024210
No One Will Save You
Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…
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June 20, 2024240
Wicked Little Letters
“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…
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June 19, 2024196
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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July 30, 2024402
Hundreds of Beavers
“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…
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June 20, 2024200
The Blue Angels
“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…
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June 20, 2024203
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024248
Last act haunts ‘Hide and Seek’
A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…
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June 19, 2024202
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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June 20, 2024212
Mayhem!
An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…
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June 20, 2024201
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 20, 2024210
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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June 20, 2024208
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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July 19, 2024374
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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June 20, 2024202
Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire
Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…
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June 20, 2024204
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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June 19, 2024201
Riddle of Fire
“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…
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June 20, 2024214
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…
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June 20, 2024384
The Kitchen
A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…
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June 20, 2024268
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024216
The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed
I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…
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June 20, 2024211
Kidnapped
Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is…
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June 20, 2024191
Yannick
Both drawn-out and deceptively simple, the trippy French comedy “Yannick” re-imagines a…
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June 20, 2024229
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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July 19, 2024365
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024341
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 20, 2024218
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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June 20, 2024237
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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June 20, 2024198
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024207
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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June 20, 2024203
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 19, 2024203
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
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July 19, 2024362
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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July 19, 2024405
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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July 10, 2024408
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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June 24, 2024367
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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June 20, 2024198
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024217
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 20, 2024237
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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June 20, 2024210
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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June 20, 2024222
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024210
The Fall Guy
With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…
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June 20, 2024204
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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June 21, 2024414
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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June 19, 2024216
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 19, 2024286
The Idea of You
Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…
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June 28, 2024474
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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June 20, 2024202
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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June 20, 2024234
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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August 9, 2024356
Duchess
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…
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June 20, 2024216
Destroy All Neighbors
A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…
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August 1, 2024359
War Game
Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC,…
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June 20, 2024218
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
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July 12, 2024290
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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June 20, 2024216
The most dangerous job in the Army
A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…
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June 20, 2024252
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 20, 2024208
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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June 28, 2024342
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024240
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
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June 20, 2024746
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…
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August 16, 2024644
My Penguin Friend
There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing…
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June 20, 2024197
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 20, 2024352
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 26, 2024340
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 20, 2024205
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…
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June 20, 2024215
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…