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June 19, 2024174
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 19, 2024180
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that…
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August 16, 2024550
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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June 20, 2024193
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024186
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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July 16, 2024407
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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August 23, 2024526
Hell Hole
The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…
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June 20, 2024183
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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June 20, 2024181
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 19, 2024172
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 21, 2024348
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some…
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June 20, 2024207
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…
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June 20, 2024168
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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August 15, 2024326
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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June 19, 2024179
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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June 21, 2024346
Trigger Warning
Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…
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June 20, 2024180
Stress Positions
Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…
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August 9, 2024411
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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June 20, 2024172
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024174
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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July 15, 2024352
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 20, 2024183
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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August 9, 2024445
Hollywood Black
The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…
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July 12, 2024340
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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June 24, 2024332
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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June 21, 2024296
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024173
One Hour Photo
“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…
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June 20, 2024173
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 20, 2024211
Disappearing act at 37,000 feet
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…
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June 20, 2024182
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 21, 2024360
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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June 28, 2024426
The Devil’s Bath
When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…
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June 25, 2024326
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 20, 2024199
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 19, 2024171
Dogman
It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…
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June 20, 2024172
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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August 15, 2024326
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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July 12, 2024440
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024179
The Fall Guy
With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…
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July 22, 2024382
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 26, 2024309
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 20, 2024234
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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June 20, 2024175
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024180
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…
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June 19, 2024174
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 20, 2024203
Femme
Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…
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July 3, 2024364
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 20, 2024165
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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July 19, 2024329
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024183
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 20, 2024173
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024178
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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July 19, 2024332
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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July 8, 2024322
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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June 20, 2024174
Taking Venice
In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…
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June 20, 2024214
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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June 20, 2024172
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024171
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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July 5, 2024453
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024181
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
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June 20, 2024182
No One Will Save You
Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…
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June 20, 2024172
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 19, 2024169
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 19, 2024170
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…
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June 20, 2024176
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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August 23, 2024517
Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…
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June 20, 2024177
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024175
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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July 11, 2024334
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 23, 2024470
The Crow
Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…
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August 16, 2024622
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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June 20, 2024182
Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire
Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…
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June 20, 2024179
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 20, 2024171
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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June 20, 2024193
State of Consciousness
It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…
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June 20, 2024176
Dad & Step-Dad
Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that…
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July 19, 2024345
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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June 20, 2024194
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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July 12, 2024315
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024176
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…