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June 19, 2024235
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024217
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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June 20, 2024302
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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June 20, 2024225
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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July 12, 2024390
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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August 2, 2024499
Doctor Jekyll
The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…
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June 20, 2024229
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024283
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024232
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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June 19, 2024226
Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…
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June 20, 2024230
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, 2024227
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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July 19, 2024380
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024260
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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August 16, 2024651
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…
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June 20, 2024225
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 20, 2024229
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 20, 2024226
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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June 20, 2024245
The Dead Don’t Hurt
One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…
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August 9, 2024519
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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August 7, 2024388
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024234
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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July 15, 2024410
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 21, 2024429
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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June 20, 2024260
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
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August 22, 2024574
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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June 20, 2024232
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 19, 2024221
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 20, 2024231
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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June 20, 2024285
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, 2024244
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024233
The Last Stop in Yuma County
“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…
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July 12, 2024368
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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July 4, 2024379
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…
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August 9, 2024455
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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August 2, 2024494
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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June 20, 2024249
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 20, 2024228
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…
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June 20, 2024212
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 20, 2024239
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…
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June 20, 2024223
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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June 20, 2024228
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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July 19, 2024389
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024232
Five Nights at Freddy’s
How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…
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August 23, 2024607
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-eAT
Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…
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June 26, 2024361
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 19, 2024234
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, 2024215
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024218
One Hour Photo
“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…
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June 28, 2024479
The Devil’s Bath
When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…
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June 20, 2024226
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…
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June 20, 2024220
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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June 21, 2024402
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…
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June 20, 2024263
Out of Darkness
Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…
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June 20, 2024235
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 19, 2024218
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 19, 2024228
Treasure
The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…
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June 20, 2024397
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 20, 2024220
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 20, 2024229
Force of Nature: The Dry 2
One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…
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June 20, 2024226
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024235
Taking Venice
In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…
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July 26, 2024396
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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June 20, 2024251
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 19, 2024223
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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June 28, 2024395
Music
Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…
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June 21, 2024398
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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July 19, 2024391
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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July 19, 2024380
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024219
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…
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June 20, 2024221
High & Low – John Galliano
“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…
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June 20, 2024212
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024264
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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June 19, 2024220
Good fences make bad neighbors
Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…
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June 20, 2024559
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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August 9, 2024453
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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June 28, 2024363
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024219
Silent Night
John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…
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June 19, 2024226
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 19, 2024220
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…