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August 2, 2024423
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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August 16, 2024340
The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…
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June 19, 2024164
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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July 19, 2024348
Customs Frontline
Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…
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June 28, 2024469
Kalki 2898 – AD
There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…
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August 15, 2024319
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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June 20, 2024218
Brats
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…
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July 12, 2024352
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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July 23, 2024441
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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June 20, 2024184
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024201
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024159
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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June 19, 2024321
Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot
In case you’re wondering, “Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a HotPot” is…
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June 20, 2024181
Destroy All Neighbors
A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All…
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June 20, 2024198
Femme
Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…
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June 20, 2024195
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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July 22, 2024415
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 19, 2024166
Good fences make bad neighbors
Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…
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June 20, 2024187
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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August 9, 2024321
Duchess
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…
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June 20, 2024168
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, 2024166
Infested
Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…
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June 20, 2024169
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 20, 2024182
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, 2024170
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 20, 2024173
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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August 8, 2024325
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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August 16, 2024544
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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June 20, 2024159
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 20, 2024164
Fast Charlie
The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…
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June 19, 2024171
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 20, 2024192
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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June 28, 2024406
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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August 16, 2024604
My Penguin Friend
There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing…
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June 20, 2024168
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
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June 19, 2024169
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 20, 2024180
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 20, 2024175
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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June 20, 2024167
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 20, 2024186
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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July 12, 2024260
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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June 20, 2024169
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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June 20, 2024181
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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August 16, 2024613
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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June 20, 2024168
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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August 23, 2024498
The Becomers
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…
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June 20, 2024166
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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June 24, 2024329
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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June 20, 2024167
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 20, 2024344
The Kitchen
A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…
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June 20, 2024209
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story
A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…
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August 9, 2024344
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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June 20, 2024275
The Bikeriders
From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…
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August 9, 2024408
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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August 8, 2024293
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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August 16, 2024574
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 20, 2024170
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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June 20, 2024176
Solo
Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling.…
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June 20, 2024175
Love Lies Bleeding
Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…
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June 20, 2024169
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…
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July 8, 2024317
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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June 20, 2024169
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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July 19, 2024350
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 20, 2024168
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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June 20, 2024163
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024166
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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August 15, 2024322
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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July 12, 2024433
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024170
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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July 19, 2024487
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…
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June 20, 2024176
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of…
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June 20, 2024172
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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July 12, 2024257
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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July 5, 2024382
Goldilocks and the Two Bears
In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…
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June 19, 2024176
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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June 20, 2024184
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 20, 2024265
The Tiger’s Apprentice
At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…
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August 6, 2024384
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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July 12, 2024292
Made in England: The Films of Power & Pressburger
At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…
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June 20, 2024164
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…