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June 19, 2024208
Just the Two of Us
Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…
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June 20, 2024197
The Blue Angels
“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…
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June 20, 2024207
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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August 6, 2024422
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 20, 2024244
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story
A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…
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August 23, 2024503
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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June 20, 2024215
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 20, 2024206
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, 2024204
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 20, 2024214
The Truth vs. Alex Jones
One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…
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June 21, 2024376
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024208
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, 2024339
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 20, 2024205
Solo
Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…
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June 20, 2024909
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…
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June 20, 2024328
Concrete Utopia
In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…
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August 1, 2024368
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 20, 2024215
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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August 16, 2024609
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 28, 2024377
Music
Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…
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June 20, 2024275
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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July 19, 2024384
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 20, 2024197
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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August 23, 2024567
Decoded
The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…
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June 20, 2024197
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 28, 2024328
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 20, 2024212
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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July 12, 2024286
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 20, 2024219
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, 2024199
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 20, 2024244
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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June 20, 2024216
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 19, 2024194
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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June 20, 2024213
Stress Positions
Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…
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June 20, 2024230
The Dead Don’t Hurt
One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…
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June 20, 2024234
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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June 20, 2024197
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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August 8, 2024356
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 19, 2024207
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 20, 2024221
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024205
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 20, 2024196
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024201
Maestra
Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…
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July 12, 2024404
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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June 20, 2024203
In a Violent Nature
The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash’s hyperviolent slasher experiment “In a Violent…
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June 20, 2024363
Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…
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June 20, 2024201
Queens
The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…
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June 20, 2024240
Disappearing act at 37,000 feet
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…
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July 19, 2024492
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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June 20, 2024197
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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August 16, 2024638
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
Silent Night
John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…
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June 19, 2024188
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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June 20, 2024201
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 19, 2024192
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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July 4, 2024367
Space Cadet
You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…
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June 19, 2024210
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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August 23, 2024524
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 19, 2024199
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
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August 2, 2024471
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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July 22, 2024411
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 20, 2024227
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 20, 2024199
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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July 19, 2024404
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…
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June 20, 2024195
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024208
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 20, 2024263
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024211
Star Wars — Episode I: The Phantom Menace
We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…
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August 14, 2024413
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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June 20, 2024263
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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August 21, 2024576
Close Your Eyes
The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…
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June 28, 2024416
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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June 20, 2024213
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, 2024198
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
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June 20, 2024309
The Bikeriders
From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…
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June 20, 2024234
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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June 20, 2024299
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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June 20, 2024241
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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July 12, 2024336
Made in England: The Films of Power & Pressburger
At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…
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July 16, 2024441
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…