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June 20, 2024302
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 19, 2024274
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, 2024338
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…
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June 20, 2024341
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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July 11, 2024425
Fly Me to the Moon
“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…
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June 19, 2024259
Riddle of Fire
“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…
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June 20, 2024474
Molli and Max in the Future
Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…
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June 20, 2024273
She became perfect in every area except life
Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity,…
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June 20, 2024278
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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July 19, 2024436
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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July 4, 2024433
Space Cadet
You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…
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June 20, 2024281
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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June 20, 2024260
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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August 8, 2024446
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 20, 2024300
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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June 20, 2024291
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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July 19, 2024592
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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June 20, 2024300
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 25, 2024411
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 20, 2024292
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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June 20, 2024557
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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June 20, 2024284
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, 2024277
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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June 20, 2024270
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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July 12, 2024568
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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July 12, 2024366
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 20, 2024288
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, 2024613
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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June 20, 2024278
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, 2024280
Foe
Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…
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June 28, 2024406
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 28, 2024473
Last Summer
With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…
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June 20, 2024261
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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June 20, 2024293
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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June 20, 2024381
The Bikeriders
From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…
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July 12, 2024458
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024280
Destroy All Neighbors
A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…
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August 7, 2024436
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 28, 2024504
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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June 20, 2024278
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024258
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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June 20, 2024274
Marrying into a nightmare
“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…
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June 20, 2024301
The Recruit
‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…
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June 20, 2024292
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 28, 2024426
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024333
Departing Seniors
The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…
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June 19, 2024287
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 19, 2024269
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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August 9, 2024456
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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June 20, 2024364
Code 8: Part II
Released in the spring of 2020, Jeff Chan’s anti-police sci-fi action film…
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June 20, 2024265
K-19: The Widowmaker
Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…
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June 20, 2024266
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024319
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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August 22, 2024637
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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June 20, 2024271
Bring Him to Me
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…
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June 19, 2024273
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
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June 19, 2024269
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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June 20, 2024277
The Fall Guy
With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…
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July 5, 2024567
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024410
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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August 9, 2024529
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 20, 2024304
Femme
Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…
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June 20, 2024311
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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July 3, 2024470
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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August 23, 2024593
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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August 9, 2024576
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 19, 2024286
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 19, 2024274
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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June 20, 2024263
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 20, 2024270
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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June 20, 2024274
Bodkin
Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…
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June 20, 2024272
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 19, 2024293
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024275
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…
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August 1, 2024454
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 20, 2024285
Dad & Step-Dad
Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…
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June 20, 2024290
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…
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August 8, 2024387
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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June 20, 2024274
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…
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June 20, 2024275
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…