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June 20, 2024186
Bella
“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…
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June 20, 2024198
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…
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June 20, 2024193
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 19, 2024182
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 20, 2024185
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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July 5, 2024400
Goldilocks and the Two Bears
In Jeff Lipsky’s films, it’s normal for characters to talk for ten…
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July 5, 2024391
Escape
The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…
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June 20, 2024175
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024187
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 19, 2024180
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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July 5, 2024418
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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June 19, 2024186
Portrait of a Nobel Prize-winner as an egomaniacal, heartless SOB
When Alan Rickman portrays an egomaniacal, preening, heartless SOB, he seems to…
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July 19, 2024378
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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August 23, 2024498
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 20, 2024191
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 20, 2024183
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 20, 2024198
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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June 20, 2024188
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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June 28, 2024388
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, 2024182
Maestra
Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…
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June 20, 2024248
Red Right Hand
“If you’re gonna survive in these hills, you’ll have to get used…
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June 20, 2024192
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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August 23, 2024483
The Crow
Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…
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June 20, 2024177
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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June 19, 2024185
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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August 16, 2024634
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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August 23, 2024539
Hell Hole
The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…
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June 20, 2024181
Bodkin
Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…
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June 20, 2024178
The Blue Angels
“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…
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June 19, 2024192
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 20, 2024195
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024279
The Tiger’s Apprentice
At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…
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June 20, 2024189
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024209
Femme
Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…
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June 20, 2024177
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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June 20, 2024187
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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June 28, 2024451
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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June 20, 2024186
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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July 12, 2024350
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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August 23, 2024499
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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July 22, 2024430
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 20, 2024181
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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June 20, 2024178
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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July 3, 2024375
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 20, 2024175
What can you really do about it if the world ends later tonight?
“Knowing” is among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen — frightening, suspenseful,…
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June 20, 2024197
Knox Goes Away
In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton…
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June 20, 2024192
The Truth vs. Alex Jones
One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…
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July 19, 2024341
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024193
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 20, 2024190
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 20, 2024235
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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June 20, 2024218
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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July 16, 2024417
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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June 20, 2024198
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024175
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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July 19, 2024351
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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June 20, 2024187
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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June 28, 2024316
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 20, 2024195
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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July 26, 2024348
Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…
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August 6, 2024400
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 25, 2024333
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 20, 2024207
The Recruit
‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency…
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June 20, 2024193
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 28, 2024276
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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June 19, 2024175
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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June 26, 2024316
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 20, 2024182
In a Violent Nature
The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash’s hyperviolent slasher experiment “In a Violent…
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July 22, 2024393
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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July 15, 2024365
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 20, 2024180
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024187
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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June 20, 2024184
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024188
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…
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June 20, 2024177
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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June 19, 2024186
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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July 5, 2024467
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024185
Bring Him to Me
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo…
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June 20, 2024172
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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June 20, 2024216
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…