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June 20, 2024219
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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June 20, 2024241
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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June 20, 2024234
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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June 20, 2024238
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 20, 2024221
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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June 20, 2024223
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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June 20, 2024238
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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June 20, 2024302
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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June 20, 2024231
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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June 20, 2024251
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…
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June 20, 2024229
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 20, 2024236
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 20, 2024226
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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June 20, 2024215
Infested
Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…
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June 20, 2024229
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 27, 2024401
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024233
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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June 20, 2024220
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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July 19, 2024380
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024256
The Recruit
‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…
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June 19, 2024236
Tuesday
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…
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June 20, 2024249
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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June 20, 2024226
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…
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June 20, 2024222
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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June 20, 2024233
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024264
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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June 20, 2024214
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 20, 2024232
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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June 20, 2024233
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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June 19, 2024229
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 20, 2024270
Divinity
In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…
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July 12, 2024458
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 20, 2024220
Marrying into a nightmare
“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…
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August 9, 2024482
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 20, 2024223
Ride
In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…
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July 19, 2024407
Customs Frontline
Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…
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June 20, 2024235
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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June 20, 2024262
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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June 20, 2024316
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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August 16, 2024625
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
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June 28, 2024463
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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June 20, 2024226
Club Zero
Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…
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August 9, 2024456
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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June 19, 2024234
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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July 5, 2024508
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024236
Five Nights at Freddy’s
How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…
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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, 2024224
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
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June 20, 2024216
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024284
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024231
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, 2024218
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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June 20, 2024268
Last act haunts ‘Hide and Seek’
A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…
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June 21, 2024404
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…
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June 20, 2024231
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 19, 2024219
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, 2024241
The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed
I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…
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June 19, 2024227
Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…
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June 20, 2024220
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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June 20, 2024228
Dad & Step-Dad
Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…
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June 20, 2024211
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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July 4, 2024388
Kill
A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…
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June 21, 2024430
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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August 16, 2024628
Close to You
There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…
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June 28, 2024353
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 20, 2024224
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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June 20, 2024230
Under Paris
Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…
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June 19, 2024215
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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June 20, 2024229
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…
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July 5, 2024433
MaXXXine
Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…
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July 12, 2024392
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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June 20, 2024272
History of Evil
Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…
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June 19, 2024226
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 28, 2024444
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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June 19, 2024227
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…
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August 23, 2024535
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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July 19, 2024383
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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July 12, 2024392
Lumina
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…
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July 22, 2024476
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 19, 2024225
With every move he makes another chance he takes
If you take a step back from the realistic locations and terse…