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June 20, 2024297
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 20, 2024193
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most…
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June 20, 2024193
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 21, 2024290
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024167
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, 2024169
Queens
The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…
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June 20, 2024174
The most dangerous job in the Army
A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…
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June 19, 2024174
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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July 26, 2024350
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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July 19, 2024365
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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June 20, 2024173
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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June 20, 2024164
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 20, 2024206
Wicked Little Letters
“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…
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June 20, 2024206
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story
A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…
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June 20, 2024204
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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June 19, 2024169
Treasure
The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…
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August 1, 2024333
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 20, 2024342
The Kitchen
A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…
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June 20, 2024275
The Bikeriders
From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…
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June 20, 2024168
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024164
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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June 20, 2024169
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024174
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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June 20, 2024215
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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July 5, 2024380
Goldilocks and the Two Bears
In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…
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June 20, 2024166
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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June 20, 2024170
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…
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June 28, 2024440
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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June 19, 2024320
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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August 9, 2024437
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 20, 2024186
State of Consciousness
It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…
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July 5, 2024448
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024178
STAX: Soulsville, USA
“STAX: Soulsville USA” is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label’s…
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July 8, 2024313
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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June 20, 2024175
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 28, 2024304
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 21, 2024328
Chestnut
For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…
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June 20, 2024215
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 19, 2024170
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…
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August 2, 2024422
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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June 28, 2024259
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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June 20, 2024168
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 27, 2024342
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024168
I Used to Be Funny
On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…
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June 20, 2024167
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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June 20, 2024166
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024163
Silent Night
John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…
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June 20, 2024171
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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June 20, 2024168
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 19, 2024176
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024166
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024193
The Recruit
‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…
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June 20, 2024162
Fast Charlie
The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…
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August 16, 2024338
The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…
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July 11, 2024333
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 21, 2024374
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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July 12, 2024259
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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June 20, 2024174
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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August 16, 2024539
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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June 20, 2024218
Lisa Frankenstein
When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…
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June 28, 2024412
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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August 23, 2024540
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 20, 2024299
Concrete Utopia
In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…
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June 26, 2024304
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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August 16, 2024599
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, 2024173
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 19, 2024173
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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June 20, 2024173
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024501
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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August 23, 2024511
Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…
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June 20, 2024202
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
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June 20, 2024161
What can you really do about it if the world ends later tonight?
“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…
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June 20, 2024167
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 20, 2024173
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, 2024171
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 21, 2024355
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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July 23, 2024440
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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June 20, 2024183
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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June 19, 2024166
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024230
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…