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July 10, 2024377
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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June 20, 2024195
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 20, 2024194
Knox Goes Away
In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…
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June 20, 2024189
Star Wars — Episode I: The Phantom Menace
We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…
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June 28, 2024355
Music
Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…
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June 19, 2024173
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…
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June 20, 2024180
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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June 20, 2024178
One Hour Photo
“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…
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June 20, 2024168
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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July 12, 2024383
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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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, 2024220
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, 2024187
The most dangerous job in the Army
A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…
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August 15, 2024332
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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June 20, 2024243
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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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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June 19, 2024185
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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June 20, 2024880
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, 2024188
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024209
The Beach Boys
There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…
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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, 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 20, 2024186
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of…
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June 20, 2024179
MoviePass, MovieCrash
For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…
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June 20, 2024177
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 20, 2024225
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, 2024176
Humane
The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…
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July 19, 2024341
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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June 19, 2024191
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 20, 2024182
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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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 24, 2024338
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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June 20, 2024223
Limbo
The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…
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June 20, 2024185
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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July 12, 2024324
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024195
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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August 2, 2024471
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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June 20, 2024183
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 20, 2024185
Bella
“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…
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June 20, 2024186
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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July 3, 2024372
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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July 19, 2024331
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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August 16, 2024617
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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July 4, 2024334
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…
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June 19, 2024172
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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July 26, 2024362
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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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, 2024365
Molli and Max in the Future
Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…
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June 20, 2024315
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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August 1, 2024345
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 20, 2024270
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…
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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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June 20, 2024215
Disappearing act at 37,000 feet
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…
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June 20, 2024180
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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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, 2024177
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…
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June 20, 2024175
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024200
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024196
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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June 20, 2024181
Bring Him to Me
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…
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June 20, 2024167
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 20, 2024207
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024182
I Used to Be Funny
On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…
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June 20, 2024210
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
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June 20, 2024200
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024177
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, 2024183
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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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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June 20, 2024178
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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June 20, 2024198
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 20, 2024175
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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June 20, 2024186
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, 2024185
Stress Positions
Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…
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June 20, 2024178
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
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June 20, 2024177
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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June 19, 2024183
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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August 23, 2024558
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, 2024179
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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July 19, 2024495
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…
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June 21, 2024357
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…