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June 20, 2024222
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, 2024241
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 20, 2024226
Bring Him to Me
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…
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June 20, 2024218
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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August 23, 2024542
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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June 26, 2024369
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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July 11, 2024389
Fly Me to the Moon
“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…
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July 19, 2024521
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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June 19, 2024221
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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July 22, 2024483
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 20, 2024933
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, 2024236
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 19, 2024226
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…
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June 28, 2024568
Kalki 2898 – AD
There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…
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June 20, 2024223
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
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June 28, 2024509
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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August 7, 2024395
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024243
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, 2024233
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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August 9, 2024524
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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August 1, 2024385
War Game
Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC,…
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June 19, 2024234
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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August 23, 2024538
The Crow
Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…
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June 20, 2024260
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024221
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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June 20, 2024224
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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June 20, 2024241
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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July 12, 2024394
Lumina
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…
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August 16, 2024661
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…
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June 20, 2024224
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 19, 2024249
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 20, 2024237
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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July 12, 2024394
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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July 22, 2024445
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 20, 2024237
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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August 6, 2024454
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 20, 2024235
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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June 28, 2024315
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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June 20, 2024224
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 20, 2024226
The Truth About Charlie
Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…
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June 19, 2024230
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 20, 2024246
Stress Positions
Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…
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July 26, 2024414
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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June 20, 2024235
Bodkin
Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…
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June 20, 2024263
The Synanon Fix
Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…
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June 20, 2024423
Molli and Max in the Future
Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…
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June 20, 2024240
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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June 21, 2024420
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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June 20, 2024277
Divinity
In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…
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June 20, 2024234
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024242
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, 2024230
In a Violent Nature
The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash’s hyperviolent slasher experiment “In a Violent…
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June 20, 2024254
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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August 22, 2024584
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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June 20, 2024224
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024230
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024233
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 20, 2024226
MoviePass, MovieCrash
For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…
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June 20, 2024234
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 20, 2024249
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024308
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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June 20, 2024244
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 20, 2024234
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024246
The Truth vs. Alex Jones
One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…
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June 21, 2024362
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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July 12, 2024311
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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August 2, 2024501
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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June 19, 2024233
Treasure
The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…
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June 19, 2024222
Riddle of Fire
“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…
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June 20, 2024271
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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July 12, 2024411
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024277
Identity
It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…
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July 19, 2024396
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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June 21, 2024361
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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August 16, 2024618
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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July 4, 2024395
Kill
A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…
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August 9, 2024461
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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June 20, 2024226
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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June 20, 2024281
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 20, 2024230
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…