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June 20, 2024211
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024203
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024212
MoviePass, MovieCrash
For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…
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June 20, 2024208
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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July 5, 2024425
MaXXXine
Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…
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June 20, 2024254
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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June 28, 2024461
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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June 20, 2024214
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024233
It’s Only Life After All
There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…
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July 23, 2024497
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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June 20, 2024234
Knox Goes Away
In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…
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June 20, 2024353
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 20, 2024201
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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June 20, 2024219
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 20, 2024226
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, 2024263
Asphalt City
You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…
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June 20, 2024215
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 20, 2024310
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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June 28, 2024490
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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August 13, 2024415
Mothers’ Instinct
“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…
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June 20, 2024232
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 28, 2024352
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024219
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, 2024378
Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…
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June 20, 2024250
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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June 20, 2024218
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, 2024215
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 20, 2024228
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 24, 2024377
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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June 20, 2024212
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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June 19, 2024295
The Idea of You
Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…
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August 23, 2024563
Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…
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June 21, 2024383
Trigger Warning
Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…
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June 19, 2024223
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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June 20, 2024209
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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June 19, 2024211
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 20, 2024219
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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July 5, 2024493
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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July 4, 2024382
Kill
A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…
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June 20, 2024390
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 20, 2024213
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
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June 20, 2024221
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024200
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 20, 2024221
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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June 19, 2024229
Tuesday
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…
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June 20, 2024232
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…
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June 20, 2024214
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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June 20, 2024219
The Truth About Charlie
Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…
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June 20, 2024551
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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August 15, 2024375
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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June 20, 2024209
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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June 20, 2024216
In Our Day
The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…
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July 15, 2024403
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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August 14, 2024431
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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August 16, 2024618
Close to You
There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…
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July 19, 2024415
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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July 12, 2024398
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024221
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024214
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 20, 2024257
Out of Darkness
Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…
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June 20, 2024210
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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July 5, 2024422
Escape
The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…
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June 20, 2024211
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…
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June 20, 2024219
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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June 20, 2024219
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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July 26, 2024389
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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June 20, 2024210
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024217
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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August 16, 2024623
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 21, 2024384
Chestnut
For most college students, the hazy, liminal space of a post-graduation summer…
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June 20, 2024245
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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June 20, 2024220
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024239
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 19, 2024215
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 20, 2024230
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 20, 2024257
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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June 20, 2024226
Mayhem!
An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…
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June 20, 2024240
The Dead Don’t Hurt
One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and…
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June 20, 2024242
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024258
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…