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June 20, 2024178
Marrying into a nightmare
“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…
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June 20, 2024179
Silent Night
John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…
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June 20, 2024174
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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June 20, 2024230
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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July 19, 2024362
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 20, 2024251
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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July 5, 2024415
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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July 19, 2024344
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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June 20, 2024210
The Synanon Fix
Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…
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June 20, 2024179
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 20, 2024189
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 20, 2024184
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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June 20, 2024210
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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June 20, 2024362
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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July 12, 2024412
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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August 9, 2024462
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 20, 2024183
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024180
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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July 16, 2024414
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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June 20, 2024229
Identity
It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…
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June 20, 2024185
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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August 2, 2024457
Rebel Moon – Director’s Cuts
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…
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June 20, 2024191
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 21, 2024390
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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June 20, 2024179
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024466
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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July 5, 2024398
Goldilocks and the Two Bears
In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…
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June 21, 2024305
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024182
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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July 19, 2024334
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024169
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 20, 2024230
Art College 1994
It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…
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August 1, 2024346
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 28, 2024406
A Sacrifice
The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…
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June 20, 2024183
Queens
The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…
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June 20, 2024179
K-19: The Widowmaker
Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…
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June 20, 2024724
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…
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June 20, 2024183
Bring Him to Me
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…
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August 2, 2024434
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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June 20, 2024184
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…
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June 20, 2024183
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 19, 2024184
Portrait of a Nobel Prize-winner as an egomaniacal, heartless SOB
When Alan Rickman portrays an egomaniacal, preening, heartless SOB, he seems to…
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June 20, 2024183
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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June 28, 2024274
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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July 22, 2024392
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 20, 2024183
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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July 26, 2024355
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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June 20, 2024181
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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June 19, 2024183
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 20, 2024202
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024179
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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July 19, 2024474
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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June 20, 2024354
The Kitchen
A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…
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June 20, 2024228
Lisa Frankenstein
When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…
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June 20, 2024172
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
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June 19, 2024176
Good fences make bad neighbors
Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…
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June 20, 2024170
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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June 20, 2024211
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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July 12, 2024306
Made in England: The Films of Power & Pressburger
At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…
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June 20, 2024192
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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August 9, 2024410
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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August 16, 2024557
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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August 9, 2024428
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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June 28, 2024395
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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June 20, 2024191
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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August 15, 2024334
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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June 20, 2024188
Club Zero
Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…
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June 21, 2024340
Chestnut
For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…
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August 2, 2024473
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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June 20, 2024177
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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August 2, 2024448
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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June 19, 2024179
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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June 20, 2024180
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 19, 2024190
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 20, 2024195
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
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August 1, 2024406
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…
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June 19, 2024180
Dogman
It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…
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August 9, 2024358
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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June 20, 2024191
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 20, 2024176
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…