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June 20, 2024272
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024209
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 21, 2024342
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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July 19, 2024529
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…
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August 16, 2024617
Close to You
There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…
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June 20, 2024255
Last act haunts ‘Hide and Seek’
A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…
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June 20, 2024207
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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July 22, 2024423
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 19, 2024211
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 21, 2024382
Chestnut
For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…
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June 20, 2024201
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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June 20, 2024214
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 20, 2024219
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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August 7, 2024376
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024217
You Can’t Run Forever
J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…
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June 19, 2024209
Riddle of Fire
“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…
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August 1, 2024383
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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August 9, 2024470
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 20, 2024211
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 20, 2024223
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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July 19, 2024375
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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June 26, 2024350
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 19, 2024226
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…
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August 8, 2024326
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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June 28, 2024301
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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June 20, 2024240
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024218
Under Paris
Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…
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June 20, 2024215
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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June 20, 2024202
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 19, 2024227
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024301
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, 2024219
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…
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July 12, 2024415
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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August 6, 2024441
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 20, 2024219
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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July 19, 2024372
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 19, 2024211
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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June 20, 2024224
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…
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June 20, 2024316
The Tiger’s Apprentice
At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…
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June 20, 2024230
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 20, 2024220
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…
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June 20, 2024919
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…
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June 20, 2024223
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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July 5, 2024492
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024227
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, 2024212
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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June 20, 2024219
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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July 10, 2024414
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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June 20, 2024217
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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June 20, 2024237
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…
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June 20, 2024233
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024213
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 20, 2024212
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
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June 20, 2024211
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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July 12, 2024396
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024217
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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August 15, 2024367
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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June 20, 2024220
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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July 26, 2024384
Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…
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June 20, 2024227
Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces
There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…
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August 16, 2024623
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 28, 2024351
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024274
Brats
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…
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June 20, 2024218
No One Will Save You
Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…
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August 2, 2024500
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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June 20, 2024243
Femme
Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…
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June 20, 2024219
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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June 20, 2024221
Taking Venice
In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…
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June 20, 2024391
The Kitchen
A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…
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July 5, 2024424
MaXXXine
Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…
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June 20, 2024227
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 20, 2024210
Bring Him to Me
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…
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June 20, 2024210
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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July 19, 2024378
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024279
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024221
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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July 3, 2024405
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 20, 2024233
It’s Only Life After All
There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…
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June 19, 2024218
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 20, 2024259
History of Evil
Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…