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Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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June 20, 2024200
His chauffeur chases ambulances
I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…
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July 12, 2024349
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024209
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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July 19, 2024365
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024206
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…
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June 19, 2024215
Tuesday
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…
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June 25, 2024351
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 20, 2024209
Solo
Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…
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June 20, 2024210
The Fall Guy
With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…
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June 20, 2024201
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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July 19, 2024404
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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July 26, 2024397
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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June 19, 2024200
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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August 9, 2024453
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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June 19, 2024216
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024411
Thelma
When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…
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June 20, 2024205
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, 2024236
The Synanon Fix
Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…
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June 20, 2024201
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 20, 2024199
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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June 20, 2024212
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 19, 2024202
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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August 9, 2024448
The Last Front
“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…
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July 26, 2024384
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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June 20, 2024194
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 27, 2024376
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024382
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 20, 2024207
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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June 20, 2024203
Queens
The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…
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June 19, 2024200
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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August 8, 2024363
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 20, 2024209
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, 2024208
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 20, 2024215
Destroy All Neighbors
A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…
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June 19, 2024204
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 20, 2024210
Mayhem!
An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…
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June 20, 2024304
The Tiger’s Apprentice
At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…
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June 20, 2024340
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 28, 2024378
Music
Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…
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June 20, 2024199
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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August 16, 2024659
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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July 4, 2024361
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…
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June 20, 2024235
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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June 20, 2024187
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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June 20, 2024201
In Our Day
The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…
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June 20, 2024206
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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August 16, 2024612
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 19, 2024197
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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August 1, 2024373
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 20, 2024396
Molli and Max in the Future
Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…
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June 28, 2024448
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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June 19, 2024202
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…
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June 20, 2024204
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 20, 2024215
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 20, 2024215
Foe
Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…
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June 20, 2024205
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024210
The Last Stop in Yuma County
“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…
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June 20, 2024197
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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June 20, 2024219
Knox Goes Away
In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…
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August 23, 2024522
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 20, 2024208
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, 2024197
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 20, 2024198
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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June 20, 2024196
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 20, 2024204
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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June 20, 2024207
Club Zero
Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…
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July 12, 2024435
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 20, 2024208
De Niro and Norton in a psychological duel
“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…
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June 20, 2024206
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 19, 2024196
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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June 20, 2024350
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 19, 2024201
Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…
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July 19, 2024405
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…
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August 23, 2024571
Decoded
The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…
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June 20, 2024196
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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June 20, 2024227
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…
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June 20, 2024201
Humane
The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…
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June 21, 2024389
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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June 20, 2024217
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…