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June 21, 2024310
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024191
The Last Stop in Yuma County
“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…
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June 19, 2024179
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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July 5, 2024404
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, 2024211
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024187
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 20, 2024189
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024185
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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June 20, 2024195
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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June 20, 2024250
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024183
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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June 20, 2024193
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 20, 2024186
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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June 20, 2024195
Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces
There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…
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June 20, 2024178
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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July 19, 2024387
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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June 20, 2024184
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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June 20, 2024190
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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June 20, 2024190
No more than three hostages allowed on most trips
Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…
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July 19, 2024369
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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July 19, 2024354
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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August 2, 2024455
Doctor Jekyll
The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…
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June 20, 2024375
Molli and Max in the Future
Throughout history, across centuries and cultures, human beings have been preoccupied with…
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June 20, 2024219
The Synanon Fix
Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…
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June 20, 2024202
Foe
Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…
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June 20, 2024195
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 20, 2024199
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 28, 2024456
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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June 20, 2024189
Love Lies Bleeding
Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…
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August 15, 2024340
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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June 20, 2024249
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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June 20, 2024185
She became perfect in every area except life
Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity,…
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June 19, 2024185
Riddle of Fire
“Riddle of Fire” is the kind of cinematic bedtime story whose whimsical…
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August 2, 2024302
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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July 26, 2024362
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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July 12, 2024271
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 26, 2024318
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 21, 2024364
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024189
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 28, 2024317
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 20, 2024189
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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June 20, 2024187
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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June 21, 2024374
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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June 20, 2024179
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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August 23, 2024485
The Crow
Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…
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June 20, 2024192
The Fall Guy
With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…
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June 20, 2024182
The Watchers
When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…
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July 12, 2024356
Lumina
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…
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June 20, 2024191
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 19, 2024192
Tuesday
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…
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June 19, 2024187
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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August 16, 2024360
The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…
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June 19, 2024194
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 20, 2024183
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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July 12, 2024461
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024183
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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July 5, 2024421
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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June 20, 2024365
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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July 19, 2024380
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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June 20, 2024470
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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August 23, 2024471
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…
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June 20, 2024185
His chauffeur chases ambulances
I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…
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August 16, 2024592
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 20, 2024211
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 20, 2024228
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, 2024179
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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June 20, 2024183
Force of Nature: The Dry 2
One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…
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June 20, 2024173
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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July 12, 2024333
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024193
Solo
Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…
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July 5, 2024416
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, 2024189
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 19, 2024188
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, 2024198
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 20, 2024186
Humane
The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…
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June 20, 2024187
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 20, 2024200
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
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August 9, 2024419
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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July 11, 2024349
Fly Me to the Moon
“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…
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August 2, 2024442
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…