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June 20, 2024287
The Dead Don’t Hurt
One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…
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June 20, 2024264
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024298
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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June 20, 2024325
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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August 23, 2024571
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…
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June 20, 2024292
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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June 19, 2024260
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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August 2, 2024553
Rebel Moon – Director’s Cuts
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…
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June 20, 2024308
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, 2024269
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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July 19, 2024461
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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June 19, 2024263
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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July 22, 2024525
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 20, 2024255
The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…
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June 19, 2024273
Just the Two of Us
Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…
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August 15, 2024432
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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June 20, 2024266
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, 2024261
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 20, 2024265
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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July 12, 2024424
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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August 9, 2024447
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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June 20, 2024261
Solo
Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…
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August 2, 2024534
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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June 20, 2024263
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 20, 2024335
Share?
Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…
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June 21, 2024467
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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August 9, 2024518
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 20, 2024267
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 3, 2024447
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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July 12, 2024500
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 20, 2024289
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024269
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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June 20, 2024251
Yannick
Both drawn-out and deceptively simple, the trippy French comedy “Yannick” re-imagines a…
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June 20, 2024323
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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June 20, 2024274
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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July 12, 2024434
Lumina
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…
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June 28, 2024465
Last Summer
With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…
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June 20, 2024261
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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July 5, 2024491
The Nature of Love
Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into…
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June 19, 2024269
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 20, 2024278
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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July 12, 2024415
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024283
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 20, 2024264
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 28, 2024413
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024304
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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June 20, 2024267
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024269
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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June 20, 2024273
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
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June 20, 2024278
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 20, 2024266
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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June 20, 2024283
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, 2024315
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…
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July 4, 2024433
Kill
A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…
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June 20, 2024268
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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July 12, 2024394
Made in England: The Films of Power & Pressburger
At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…
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June 19, 2024272
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 19, 2024255
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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June 20, 2024401
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 19, 2024281
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024286
It’s Only Life After All
There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…
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August 2, 2024538
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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June 20, 2024266
Humane
The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…
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June 20, 2024295
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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June 20, 2024254
STAX: Soulsville, USA
“STAX: Soulsville USA” is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label’s…
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June 20, 2024251
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 20, 2024283
Stress Positions
Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…
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June 20, 2024277
Love Lies Bleeding
Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…
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June 20, 2024264
Force of Nature: The Dry 2
One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…
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June 20, 2024277
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 20, 2024274
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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June 19, 2024261
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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July 5, 2024556
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 19, 2024260
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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June 20, 2024275
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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August 13, 2024469
Mothers’ Instinct
“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…
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June 20, 2024277
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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July 26, 2024442
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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June 20, 2024274
The Truth vs. Alex Jones
One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…
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June 20, 2024269
Bodkin
Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…