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June 20, 2024192
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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June 19, 2024182
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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June 19, 2024188
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024191
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 19, 2024187
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 19, 2024342
Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot
In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is…
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June 20, 2024250
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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August 2, 2024454
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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June 20, 2024197
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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August 15, 2024336
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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June 20, 2024181
The Watchers
When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…
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June 20, 2024323
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 20, 2024179
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…
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June 21, 2024373
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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June 20, 2024189
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…
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August 16, 2024559
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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June 20, 2024189
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 20, 2024231
Identity
It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…
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June 20, 2024196
Kidnapped
Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is…
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June 20, 2024183
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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June 20, 2024179
Infested
Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…
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June 20, 2024184
Maestra
Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…
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June 20, 2024186
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024200
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
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June 20, 2024193
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 21, 2024310
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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August 7, 2024348
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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July 12, 2024271
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 20, 2024182
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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June 19, 2024187
Portrait of a Nobel Prize-winner as an egomaniacal, heartless SOB
When Alan Rickman portrays an egomaniacal, preening, heartless SOB, he seems to…
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July 12, 2024271
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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June 28, 2024421
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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June 20, 2024345
Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…
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June 20, 2024180
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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July 19, 2024353
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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June 20, 2024183
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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June 19, 2024184
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 20, 2024195
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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August 9, 2024392
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, 2024228
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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June 20, 2024194
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of…
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July 19, 2024480
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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August 9, 2024427
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 20, 2024185
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 20, 2024178
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024192
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, 2024183
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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June 20, 2024237
Brats
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…
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June 20, 2024175
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 20, 2024202
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, 2024218
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
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June 20, 2024186
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, 2024184
Revoir Paris
Some memories are too painful for us to carry day to day.…
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June 20, 2024182
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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August 16, 2024359
The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…
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July 12, 2024331
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024178
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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July 12, 2024417
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 20, 2024365
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 20, 2024179
Marrying into a nightmare
“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…
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August 23, 2024570
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, 2024235
This train’s got the disappearin’ Western blues
James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…
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June 20, 2024182
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024267
Share?
Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…
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July 19, 2024349
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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August 14, 2024400
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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June 20, 2024181
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 20, 2024219
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
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June 20, 2024223
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, 2024189
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, 2024187
Flipside
The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…
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June 20, 2024179
Ride
In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…
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June 20, 2024184
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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July 15, 2024365
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 20, 2024175
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 24, 2024339
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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June 20, 2024198
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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June 20, 2024185
High & Low – John Galliano
“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…
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June 21, 2024396
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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June 20, 2024185
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…