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July 26, 2024424
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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July 19, 2024514
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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June 20, 2024228
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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June 20, 2024230
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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June 19, 2024220
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 19, 2024214
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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June 20, 2024216
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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June 20, 2024435
Thelma
When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…
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August 9, 2024397
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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June 20, 2024227
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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June 19, 2024215
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 20, 2024281
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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June 20, 2024219
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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June 20, 2024232
You Can’t Stay Here
Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…
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June 20, 2024221
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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August 1, 2024396
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 21, 2024427
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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June 20, 2024210
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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August 8, 2024385
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 20, 2024215
MoviePass, MovieCrash
For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…
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June 26, 2024360
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 20, 2024210
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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June 20, 2024218
Silent Night
John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…
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June 20, 2024242
Knox Goes Away
In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…
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August 16, 2024667
Rob Peace
“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…
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August 23, 2024543
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 20, 2024223
Humane
The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…
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June 20, 2024218
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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June 21, 2024391
Trigger Warning
Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…
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July 12, 2024366
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024231
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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June 20, 2024228
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…
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June 20, 2024217
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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June 20, 2024258
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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June 20, 2024218
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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June 20, 2024248
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 20, 2024225
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 20, 2024283
Brats
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…
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June 21, 2024398
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 28, 2024443
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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June 20, 2024210
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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July 12, 2024403
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024232
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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July 19, 2024403
Customs Frontline
Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…
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June 20, 2024221
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…
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June 20, 2024268
Asphalt City
You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…
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June 19, 2024223
With every move he makes another chance he takes
If you take a step back from the realistic locations and terse…
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June 28, 2024459
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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June 28, 2024467
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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June 20, 2024238
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 21, 2024399
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…
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June 20, 2024221
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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June 20, 2024234
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 20, 2024244
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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July 19, 2024421
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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August 9, 2024435
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…
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June 20, 2024267
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 20, 2024225
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…
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June 20, 2024261
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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August 23, 2024518
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…
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August 7, 2024386
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024244
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024225
Dad & Step-Dad
Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…
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June 21, 2024388
Chestnut
For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…
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June 20, 2024245
The Seeding
“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…
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June 20, 2024234
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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June 20, 2024259
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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June 28, 2024500
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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June 20, 2024234
The most dangerous job in the Army
A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…
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June 20, 2024241
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…
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June 19, 2024232
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…
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June 20, 2024215
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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June 20, 2024250
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…
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June 20, 2024242
State of Consciousness
It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…
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June 20, 2024225
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 20, 2024212
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024259
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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June 20, 2024225
Flipside
The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…
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June 20, 2024314
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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July 19, 2024536
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…