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June 20, 2024239
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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June 20, 2024242
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 19, 2024240
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 20, 2024262
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 20, 2024257
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 20, 2024237
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 20, 2024239
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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June 20, 2024292
Limbo
The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…
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June 20, 2024244
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, 2024285
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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June 20, 2024458
Thelma
When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…
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June 20, 2024240
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…
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June 20, 2024249
Robbing banks is the neighborhood business
There’s a scene in Ben Affleck’s “The Town” that expertly exploits the…
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June 28, 2024467
A Sacrifice
The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…
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June 19, 2024234
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 20, 2024281
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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June 19, 2024327
The Idea of You
Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…
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June 20, 2024233
Maestra
Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…
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June 20, 2024392
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 20, 2024228
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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July 19, 2024404
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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June 19, 2024261
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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August 2, 2024514
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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June 20, 2024232
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 20, 2024253
Mayhem!
An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…
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July 11, 2024398
Fly Me to the Moon
“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…
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June 19, 2024242
Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…
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June 20, 2024233
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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July 12, 2024536
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024281
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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July 12, 2024408
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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July 12, 2024429
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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July 12, 2024391
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 19, 2024243
Blackout
If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…
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June 20, 2024255
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 19, 2024253
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024248
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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June 20, 2024302
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 19, 2024251
Tuesday
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…
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June 19, 2024236
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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August 23, 2024544
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…
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June 20, 2024255
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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June 19, 2024236
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 20, 2024264
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…
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June 20, 2024303
Lisa Frankenstein
When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…
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June 20, 2024238
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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July 19, 2024418
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 28, 2024413
Music
Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…
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June 20, 2024241
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 20, 2024280
Wicked Little Letters
“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…
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June 20, 2024245
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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August 7, 2024405
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024248
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 20, 2024258
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 20, 2024307
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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August 8, 2024360
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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July 12, 2024476
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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August 2, 2024521
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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July 19, 2024534
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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June 20, 2024234
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 20, 2024232
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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July 5, 2024450
Escape
The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…
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July 4, 2024405
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, 2024955
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…
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June 20, 2024286
The Beach Boys
There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…
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June 20, 2024243
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…
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June 20, 2024263
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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August 6, 2024467
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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August 2, 2024365
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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July 19, 2024399
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 26, 2024382
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 20, 2024247
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…
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June 19, 2024243
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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August 13, 2024448
Mothers’ Instinct
“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…
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June 20, 2024254
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 20, 2024294
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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June 19, 2024235
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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June 20, 2024226
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024245
You Can’t Run Forever
J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…
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August 15, 2024408
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…