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June 19, 2024280
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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August 8, 2024460
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 19, 2024299
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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June 20, 2024290
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 20, 2024291
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…
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June 19, 2024280
Dogman
It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…
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June 28, 2024544
The Devil’s Bath
When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…
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June 20, 2024292
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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June 20, 2024299
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024284
Fast Charlie
The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…
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June 20, 2024309
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…
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July 4, 2024443
Space Cadet
You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…
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June 20, 2024314
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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June 20, 2024840
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…
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June 20, 2024281
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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June 20, 2024272
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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June 20, 2024295
No more than three hostages allowed on most trips
Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…
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August 2, 2024572
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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June 20, 2024298
Ride
In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…
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June 19, 2024286
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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July 5, 2024579
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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August 23, 2024604
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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June 20, 2024335
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 19, 2024279
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 19, 2024285
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, 2024284
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, 2024288
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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June 20, 2024296
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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August 2, 2024600
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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August 16, 2024750
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 19, 2024284
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…
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June 20, 2024290
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of…
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August 15, 2024458
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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July 12, 2024585
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024282
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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August 2, 2024579
Rebel Moon – Director’s Cuts
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…
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August 16, 2024703
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 20, 2024275
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024273
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 20, 2024378
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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June 20, 2024296
Taking Venice
In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…
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August 23, 2024643
Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…
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July 5, 2024478
Escape
The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…
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August 16, 2024481
The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…
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August 9, 2024575
Hollywood Black
The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…
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July 10, 2024481
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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June 19, 2024294
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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June 20, 2024325
History of Evil
Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…
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June 20, 2024292
Queens
The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…
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June 20, 2024312
Femme
Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…
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June 20, 2024371
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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July 15, 2024473
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 20, 2024369
This train’s got the disappearin’ Western blues
James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…
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June 20, 2024284
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024342
Lisa Frankenstein
When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…
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June 20, 2024283
Bodkin
Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…
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June 20, 2024418
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 20, 2024286
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 20, 2024309
The Dead Don’t Hurt
One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…
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August 22, 2024647
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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August 1, 2024464
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 19, 2024279
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 27, 2024468
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024282
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…
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July 19, 2024446
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 20, 2024301
The Watchers
When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…
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August 9, 2024544
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 20, 2024305
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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June 20, 2024287
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 19, 2024296
Treasure
The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…
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June 20, 2024295
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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July 26, 2024461
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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June 20, 2024288
You Can’t Stay Here
Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…
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August 16, 2024695
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
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June 20, 2024300
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…
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June 21, 2024492
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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June 28, 2024486
Last Summer
With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…
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July 19, 2024603
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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July 8, 2024439
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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August 16, 2024699
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…