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June 20, 2024181
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 19, 2024178
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…
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July 5, 2024415
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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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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July 19, 2024350
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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July 19, 2024377
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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July 26, 2024375
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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June 20, 2024177
Silent Night
John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…
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June 20, 2024241
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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June 20, 2024190
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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August 6, 2024397
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 20, 2024209
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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August 21, 2024536
Close Your Eyes
The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…
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August 2, 2024452
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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August 14, 2024397
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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July 3, 2024373
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 19, 2024173
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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June 20, 2024183
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
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June 20, 2024184
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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August 1, 2024346
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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July 12, 2024326
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024209
The Synanon Fix
Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…
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July 11, 2024342
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, 2024345
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024186
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, 2024193
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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August 9, 2024428
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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July 22, 2024429
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 20, 2024179
In Our Day
The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…
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June 20, 2024204
It’s Only Life After All
There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…
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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, 2024228
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 20, 2024208
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024183
I Used to Be Funny
On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…
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June 19, 2024179
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024181
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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July 19, 2024384
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…
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July 2, 2024378
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…
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June 20, 2024224
Limbo
The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…
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June 20, 2024184
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 25, 2024331
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 21, 2024303
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024187
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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August 2, 2024473
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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July 5, 2024398
Goldilocks and the Two Bears
In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…
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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 19, 2024179
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 20, 2024183
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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July 26, 2024345
Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…
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June 20, 2024198
State of Consciousness
It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…
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July 12, 2024453
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024172
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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August 16, 2024557
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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August 8, 2024335
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 20, 2024182
MoviePass, MovieCrash
For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…
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June 20, 2024189
Under Paris
Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…
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June 19, 2024187
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 20, 2024190
The Truth vs. Alex Jones
One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…
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June 20, 2024177
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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June 28, 2024313
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 28, 2024406
A Sacrifice
The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…
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June 20, 2024179
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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June 20, 2024185
Dad & Step-Dad
Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…
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June 20, 2024202
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024190
Destroy All Neighbors
A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…
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June 20, 2024181
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 19, 2024179
Treasure
The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…
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June 20, 2024228
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, 2024188
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 19, 2024179
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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August 22, 2024525
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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July 19, 2024378
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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July 19, 2024338
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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July 4, 2024353
Kill
A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…
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July 26, 2024355
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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June 20, 2024209
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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June 20, 2024206
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most…
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June 20, 2024178
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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July 19, 2024362
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 20, 2024175
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…