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June 20, 2024220
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 20, 2024242
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024236
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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June 20, 2024238
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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June 20, 2024278
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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August 9, 2024401
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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August 1, 2024452
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…
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June 20, 2024287
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024258
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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August 23, 2024614
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 19, 2024236
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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August 23, 2024563
The Becomers
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…
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June 20, 2024262
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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August 2, 2024506
Doctor Jekyll
The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…
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August 9, 2024512
Hollywood Black
The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…
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June 20, 2024234
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 20, 2024233
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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June 20, 2024239
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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June 19, 2024227
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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June 20, 2024216
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024275
History of Evil
Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…
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June 21, 2024433
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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July 3, 2024415
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 20, 2024240
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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July 15, 2024419
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 20, 2024237
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024222
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 20, 2024228
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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June 20, 2024215
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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June 19, 2024239
Just the Two of Us
Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…
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August 2, 2024506
Rebel Moon – Director’s Cuts
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…
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June 20, 2024231
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…
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June 20, 2024260
The Synanon Fix
Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…
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August 15, 2024382
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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June 19, 2024229
Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…
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June 20, 2024243
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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June 20, 2024268
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
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August 13, 2024432
Mothers’ Instinct
“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.…
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June 20, 2024233
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 20, 2024244
Stress Positions
Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…
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June 20, 2024255
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 20, 2024225
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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August 23, 2024555
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 20, 2024226
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…
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August 7, 2024393
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024230
Ride
In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…
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July 5, 2024453
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, 2024214
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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June 20, 2024249
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 20, 2024225
Bella
“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…
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June 19, 2024228
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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June 20, 2024274
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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June 20, 2024226
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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August 9, 2024482
The Last Front
“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…
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June 20, 2024238
Foe
Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…
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August 9, 2024523
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 20, 2024246
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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August 2, 2024535
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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August 2, 2024499
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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June 20, 2024334
The Tiger’s Apprentice
At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…
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June 19, 2024228
Blackout
If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…
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August 23, 2024542
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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June 20, 2024226
The Truth About Charlie
Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…
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August 16, 2024629
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
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July 5, 2024437
MaXXXine
Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…
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June 20, 2024282
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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June 28, 2024507
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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July 30, 2024423
Hundreds of Beavers
“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…
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June 20, 2024251
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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June 20, 2024243
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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August 16, 2024638
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 21, 2024405
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…
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August 8, 2024344
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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June 20, 2024223
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 27, 2024406
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024230
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 20, 2024933
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, 2024225
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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June 21, 2024360
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024238
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…