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June 20, 2024224
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, 2024223
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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July 12, 2024513
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024225
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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June 20, 2024234
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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June 20, 2024215
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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June 20, 2024224
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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July 3, 2024411
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 20, 2024225
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…
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June 19, 2024234
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024222
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
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August 2, 2024341
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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June 28, 2024344
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 20, 2024220
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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June 20, 2024213
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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August 16, 2024609
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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June 20, 2024230
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024213
Infested
Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…
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August 9, 2024513
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 19, 2024380
Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot
In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is…
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June 19, 2024221
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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August 9, 2024470
The Last Front
“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…
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July 12, 2024420
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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June 19, 2024237
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 20, 2024221
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 7, 2024383
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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July 5, 2024465
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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June 20, 2024267
History of Evil
Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…
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June 19, 2024218
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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June 20, 2024222
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 21, 2024394
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024226
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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July 2, 2024420
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…
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June 20, 2024230
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024221
De Niro and Norton in a psychological duel
“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…
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June 20, 2024241
State of Consciousness
It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…
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August 9, 2024374
Duchess
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…
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June 20, 2024216
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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July 12, 2024455
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 28, 2024458
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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June 19, 2024219
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
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August 13, 2024417
Mothers’ Instinct
“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…
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August 9, 2024470
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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June 20, 2024216
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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July 10, 2024418
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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June 21, 2024348
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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June 20, 2024218
Maestra
Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…
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July 12, 2024304
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 20, 2024217
His chauffeur chases ambulances
I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…
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June 20, 2024224
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 28, 2024446
A Sacrifice
The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…
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June 20, 2024230
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 20, 2024231
The most dangerous job in the Army
A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…
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July 19, 2024402
Customs Frontline
Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…
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July 23, 2024500
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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June 20, 2024298
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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June 19, 2024221
Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…
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June 28, 2024475
The Devil’s Bath
When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…
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July 19, 2024421
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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June 20, 2024277
Lisa Frankenstein
When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…
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June 20, 2024220
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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June 20, 2024557
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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June 20, 2024213
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 19, 2024212
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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July 19, 2024378
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 28, 2024467
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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June 20, 2024245
The Seeding
“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…
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June 20, 2024278
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, 2024217
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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August 9, 2024435
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…
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June 20, 2024212
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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August 8, 2024331
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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June 20, 2024243
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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June 20, 2024223
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…
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June 20, 2024220
High & Low – John Galliano
“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…
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June 20, 2024219
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024260
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
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June 20, 2024223
Robbing banks is the neighborhood business
There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…
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August 23, 2024549
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 20, 2024274
Departing Seniors
The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…