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June 20, 2024236
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, 2024261
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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July 12, 2024359
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, 2024266
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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June 20, 2024222
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 20, 2024222
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024230
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 20, 2024233
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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August 16, 2024616
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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June 19, 2024220
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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July 19, 2024386
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024268
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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July 22, 2024481
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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July 19, 2024393
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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July 12, 2024394
Lumina
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…
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June 20, 2024261
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
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June 19, 2024226
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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June 20, 2024229
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…
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June 20, 2024226
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 20, 2024242
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, 2024421
Molli and Max in the Future
Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…
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July 12, 2024309
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 20, 2024285
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024217
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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July 19, 2024429
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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August 23, 2024541
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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June 20, 2024264
Wicked Little Letters
“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…
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June 28, 2024507
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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August 13, 2024430
Mothers’ Instinct
“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…
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June 20, 2024220
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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June 20, 2024216
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024243
The Truth vs. Alex Jones
One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…
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June 20, 2024237
Foe
Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…
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June 20, 2024221
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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August 9, 2024458
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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June 20, 2024377
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 20, 2024243
Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces
There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…
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August 2, 2024487
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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August 23, 2024554
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 20, 2024319
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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June 20, 2024234
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 20, 2024224
His chauffeur chases ambulances
I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…
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June 28, 2024464
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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July 12, 2024409
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024233
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, 2024241
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 28, 2024452
A Sacrifice
The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…
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June 20, 2024233
Robbing banks is the neighborhood business
There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…
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June 19, 2024246
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 24, 2024384
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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August 2, 2024497
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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August 9, 2024482
The Last Front
“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…
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June 20, 2024274
Identity
It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…
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June 20, 2024249
The Dead Don’t Hurt
One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…
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June 20, 2024236
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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August 9, 2024401
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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June 20, 2024275
Art College 1994
It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…
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June 20, 2024224
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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June 20, 2024565
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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June 20, 2024274
Last act haunts ‘Hide and Seek’
A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…
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June 20, 2024252
Musica
In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…
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June 20, 2024233
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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June 20, 2024230
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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June 20, 2024266
Disappearing act at 37,000 feet
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…
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June 19, 2024239
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024304
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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June 19, 2024220
Riddle of Fire
“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…
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June 20, 2024249
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024226
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…
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June 20, 2024232
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 20, 2024241
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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July 5, 2024512
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024226
High & Low – John Galliano
“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…
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June 20, 2024246
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024273
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 21, 2024401
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024239
Taking Venice
In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…
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June 27, 2024404
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024238
Love Lies Bleeding
Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…
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June 19, 2024229
Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…