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August 9, 2024533
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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June 20, 2024315
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 20, 2024377
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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August 16, 2024779
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…
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July 19, 2024465
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024310
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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August 2, 2024582
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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June 20, 2024310
Queens
The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…
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June 28, 2024509
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, 2024306
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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June 19, 2024318
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…
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June 20, 2024328
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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June 20, 2024287
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 21, 2024481
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024326
Club Zero
Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner’s films, where…
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June 20, 2024313
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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August 1, 2024564
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…
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June 20, 2024300
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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June 19, 2024318
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 20, 2024304
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024304
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, 2024305
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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June 20, 2024360
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, 2024393
This train’s got the disappearin’ Western blues
James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…
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June 20, 2024300
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024332
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…
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June 20, 2024317
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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July 19, 2024503
Customs Frontline
Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…
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June 20, 2024301
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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June 20, 2024302
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024296
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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August 16, 2024732
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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June 20, 2024330
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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June 20, 2024299
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
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June 19, 2024322
Just the Two of Us
Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…
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August 23, 2024712
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-eAT
Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…
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June 20, 2024306
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 20, 2024296
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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June 20, 2024347
The Beach Boys
There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…
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June 20, 2024330
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 20, 2024650
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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June 20, 2024316
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024328
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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July 5, 2024544
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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July 16, 2024559
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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June 19, 2024308
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 19, 2024303
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…
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August 16, 2024732
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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July 26, 2024474
Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…
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July 3, 2024504
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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August 9, 2024623
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 20, 2024307
Solo
Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…
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June 19, 2024307
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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August 9, 2024500
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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June 20, 2024302
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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June 20, 2024299
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 20, 2024304
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 20, 2024294
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
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June 19, 2024327
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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July 22, 2024517
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 20, 2024308
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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June 20, 2024342
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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June 20, 2024340
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
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June 20, 2024318
The Watchers
When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…
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June 21, 2024436
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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August 23, 2024656
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 20, 2024309
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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June 20, 2024303
Black Barbie
“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…
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June 20, 2024327
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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June 20, 2024320
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…
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June 20, 2024297
Bodkin
Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…
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July 8, 2024461
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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June 20, 2024329
Star Wars — Episode I: The Phantom Menace
We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…
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June 20, 2024304
Bella
“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…
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June 20, 2024318
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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June 20, 2024289
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024334
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…
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July 19, 2024471
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024290
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024593
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…