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June 20, 2024201
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 20, 2024202
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, 2024214
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 20, 2024195
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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August 7, 2024357
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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July 19, 2024397
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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June 20, 2024189
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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June 20, 2024245
Divinity
In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…
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June 19, 2024190
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 20, 2024214
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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June 20, 2024202
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…
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June 20, 2024212
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 19, 2024198
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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August 23, 2024520
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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July 3, 2024391
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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August 2, 2024467
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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June 20, 2024213
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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June 20, 2024208
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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June 20, 2024197
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 19, 2024356
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024203
Club Zero
Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…
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August 9, 2024404
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…
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August 16, 2024641
Rob Peace
“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…
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June 20, 2024315
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…
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June 20, 2024259
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024202
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead
Director Wade Allain-Marcus’s “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a remake…
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August 6, 2024419
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 20, 2024202
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024200
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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June 20, 2024201
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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June 20, 2024190
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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July 12, 2024281
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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June 20, 2024201
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 20, 2024195
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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August 1, 2024353
War Game
Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC,…
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June 20, 2024360
Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…
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June 20, 2024200
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 19, 2024198
With every move he makes another chance he takes
If you take a step back from the realistic locations and terse…
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June 28, 2024423
A Sacrifice
The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…
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June 20, 2024188
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
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June 20, 2024209
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 20, 2024199
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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August 23, 2024515
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 20, 2024187
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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August 2, 2024488
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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July 19, 2024352
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024217
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…
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June 20, 2024204
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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June 19, 2024199
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 28, 2024411
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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June 20, 2024194
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…
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July 8, 2024352
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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June 19, 2024202
Dogman
It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…
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July 26, 2024375
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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June 20, 2024487
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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July 12, 2024402
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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June 19, 2024202
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 20, 2024227
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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June 20, 2024208
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 20, 2024195
Bring Him to Me
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…
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August 8, 2024314
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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June 19, 2024208
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 20, 2024194
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
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August 13, 2024398
Mothers’ Instinct
“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…
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June 20, 2024337
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 20, 2024197
Bella
“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…
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June 20, 2024206
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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June 20, 2024200
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 20, 2024243
Asphalt City
You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…
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June 20, 2024202
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, 2024215
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…
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June 20, 2024204
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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August 14, 2024411
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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June 20, 2024224
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most…
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August 2, 2024451
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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June 20, 2024207
Mayhem!
An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…
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July 19, 2024396
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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August 9, 2024448
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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June 20, 2024742
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…
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June 20, 2024186
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…