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August 2, 2024470
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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August 15, 2024351
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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June 20, 2024215
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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July 19, 2024365
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024250
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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June 20, 2024207
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, 2024191
Marrying into a nightmare
“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…
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June 20, 2024185
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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July 5, 2024411
MaXXXine
Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…
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June 20, 2024212
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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June 19, 2024197
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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August 1, 2024356
War Game
Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC,…
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June 20, 2024189
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 19, 2024201
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, 2024212
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…
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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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June 20, 2024222
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 25, 2024349
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 20, 2024198
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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June 20, 2024205
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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June 19, 2024201
Treasure
The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…
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June 20, 2024210
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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June 20, 2024195
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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August 9, 2024448
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 28, 2024326
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 20, 2024199
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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June 20, 2024200
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, 2024208
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…
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June 20, 2024244
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story
A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…
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June 20, 2024203
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024194
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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July 12, 2024342
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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July 5, 2024481
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024193
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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June 20, 2024213
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024206
The Last Stop in Yuma County
“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…
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June 20, 2024195
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 20, 2024199
Revoir Paris
Some memories are too painful for us to carry day to day.…
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June 20, 2024200
Flipside
The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…
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June 20, 2024211
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024192
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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July 5, 2024432
The Nature of Love
Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into…
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June 20, 2024201
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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June 20, 2024377
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 19, 2024203
Dogman
It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…
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June 20, 2024213
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 20, 2024205
You Can’t Stay Here
Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…
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June 19, 2024207
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024206
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of…
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August 22, 2024554
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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June 20, 2024406
Thelma
When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…
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June 20, 2024198
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024203
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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June 20, 2024279
Share?
Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…
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June 20, 2024237
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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July 19, 2024379
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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July 19, 2024353
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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August 9, 2024451
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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June 20, 2024298
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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June 20, 2024208
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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July 22, 2024451
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 20, 2024190
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 20, 2024197
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
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June 20, 2024344
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 20, 2024202
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 20, 2024205
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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August 2, 2024455
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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August 7, 2024359
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024223
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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July 19, 2024404
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…
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June 20, 2024224
The Dead Don’t Hurt
One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…
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June 20, 2024231
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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June 20, 2024207
Mayhem!
An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…
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June 20, 2024196
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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August 16, 2024658
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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June 20, 2024250
Brats
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…
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July 23, 2024480
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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August 16, 2024645
Rob Peace
“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…
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June 19, 2024210
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024246
Identity
It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…