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July 19, 2024334
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024174
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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July 16, 2024409
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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June 20, 2024221
Limbo
The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…
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June 20, 2024202
The Seeding
“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…
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June 20, 2024175
His chauffeur chases ambulances
I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…
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June 20, 2024195
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, 2024236
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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June 20, 2024185
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, 2024183
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 20, 2024177
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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June 20, 2024193
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…
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June 20, 2024219
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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June 20, 2024175
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, 2024183
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024210
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, 2024182
You Can’t Stay Here
Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…
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June 20, 2024187
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 21, 2024312
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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June 20, 2024187
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, 2024189
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 20, 2024211
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
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July 3, 2024371
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 19, 2024177
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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August 2, 2024296
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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June 19, 2024190
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 20, 2024181
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 20, 2024177
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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June 20, 2024182
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 19, 2024185
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 19, 2024184
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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June 20, 2024177
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…
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June 20, 2024178
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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July 5, 2024409
The Nature of Love
Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into…
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August 9, 2024450
Hollywood Black
The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…
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June 20, 2024181
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 20, 2024177
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 28, 2024433
The Devil’s Bath
When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…
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June 20, 2024179
Five Nights at Freddy’s
How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…
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June 20, 2024363
Molli and Max in the Future
Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…
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June 27, 2024350
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024175
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 19, 2024170
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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June 20, 2024513
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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June 19, 2024179
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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June 20, 2024174
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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June 20, 2024189
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 20, 2024224
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 20, 2024179
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 20, 2024206
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 19, 2024185
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, 2024192
The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed
I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…
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June 20, 2024173
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 20, 2024170
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
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June 20, 2024207
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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July 19, 2024381
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…
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June 20, 2024282
The Bikeriders
From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…
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June 20, 2024182
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 20, 2024198
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024462
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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June 20, 2024193
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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July 22, 2024388
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 20, 2024204
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 21, 2024338
Chestnut
For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…
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June 20, 2024176
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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June 20, 2024175
Fast Charlie
The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…
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June 19, 2024181
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…
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June 20, 2024170
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024184
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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June 20, 2024878
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…
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August 16, 2024629
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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June 20, 2024192
Kidnapped
Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is…
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June 20, 2024179
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024168
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 20, 2024182
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…
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June 25, 2024330
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 28, 2024481
Kalki 2898 – AD
There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…
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June 20, 2024175
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024309
Concrete Utopia
In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…
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June 20, 2024174
Lousy Carter
Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington never takes the easy road, even when he’s…