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June 20, 2024344
Concrete Utopia
In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…
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June 20, 2024217
Club Zero
Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…
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June 20, 2024216
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 20, 2024289
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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August 23, 2024552
The Becomers
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…
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June 20, 2024212
High & Low – John Galliano
“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…
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June 20, 2024236
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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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, 2024216
Blackout
If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…
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June 19, 2024229
Tuesday
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…
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June 20, 2024257
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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July 5, 2024424
MaXXXine
Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…
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June 20, 2024310
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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June 20, 2024200
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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June 20, 2024240
Musica
In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…
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June 19, 2024202
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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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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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, 2024215
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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June 20, 2024231
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024256
The Beach Boys
There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…
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June 20, 2024213
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
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June 20, 2024220
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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July 19, 2024411
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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June 20, 2024216
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024218
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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July 19, 2024383
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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June 20, 2024220
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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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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August 9, 2024389
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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July 12, 2024449
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 20, 2024259
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, 2024279
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024218
The Truth About Charlie
Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…
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June 19, 2024211
This Closeness
In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…
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August 9, 2024464
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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June 20, 2024222
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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June 19, 2024207
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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August 9, 2024462
The Last Front
“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…
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June 20, 2024269
Departing Seniors
The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…
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June 20, 2024209
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024230
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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June 19, 2024214
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 28, 2024434
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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July 19, 2024377
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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June 20, 2024233
Knox Goes Away
In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…
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June 20, 2024353
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 20, 2024221
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 20, 2024214
Bella
“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…
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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 28, 2024351
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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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, 2024225
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 20, 2024221
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…
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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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June 20, 2024204
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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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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June 20, 2024223
Destroy All Neighbors
A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…
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June 20, 2024215
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, 2024259
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 20, 2024220
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024213
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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June 20, 2024217
Fast Charlie
The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…
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June 20, 2024213
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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August 7, 2024377
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 28, 2024546
Kalki 2898 – AD
There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…
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June 19, 2024211
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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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 15, 2024403
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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August 23, 2024545
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 20, 2024203
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, 2024218
You Can’t Run Forever
J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…
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June 20, 2024219
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024214
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 16, 2024662
Rob Peace
“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…
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June 20, 2024219
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 20, 2024237
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 20, 2024221
The Last Stop in Yuma County
“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…
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June 20, 2024262
Asphalt City
You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…
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June 20, 2024256
Disappearing act at 37,000 feet
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…