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July 19, 2024359
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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July 12, 2024480
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024191
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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July 8, 2024348
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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August 23, 2024512
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 20, 2024223
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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June 20, 2024198
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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June 20, 2024191
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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June 20, 2024198
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 20, 2024191
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…
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June 28, 2024451
The Devil’s Bath
When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive?…
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June 20, 2024186
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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June 20, 2024307
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to…
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June 20, 2024206
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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June 20, 2024196
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 20, 2024197
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 20, 2024212
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…
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June 20, 2024199
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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August 9, 2024443
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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July 19, 2024347
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024196
I Used to Be Funny
On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…
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July 2, 2024392
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…
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June 20, 2024191
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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June 20, 2024196
The Truth About Charlie
Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…
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August 9, 2024425
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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June 20, 2024187
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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June 20, 2024234
Disappearing act at 37,000 feet
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…
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August 2, 2024464
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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June 20, 2024192
In Our Day
The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…
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June 20, 2024246
Brats
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…
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June 20, 2024190
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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June 20, 2024739
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…
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June 19, 2024204
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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June 20, 2024216
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 19, 2024194
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 20, 2024193
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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June 20, 2024207
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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August 2, 2024462
Doctor Jekyll
The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…
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June 20, 2024186
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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June 20, 2024210
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 19, 2024195
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 19, 2024197
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 20, 2024188
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024194
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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June 20, 2024198
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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June 19, 2024190
With every move he makes another chance he takes
If you take a step back from the realistic locations and terse…
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June 20, 2024194
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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August 16, 2024590
Close to You
There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…
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June 20, 2024207
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 20, 2024217
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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July 19, 2024376
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 27, 2024368
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 19, 2024188
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 21, 2024316
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024373
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 20, 2024255
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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August 2, 2024487
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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July 12, 2024281
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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August 23, 2024518
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 28, 2024408
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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June 20, 2024355
Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…
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June 20, 2024194
Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire
Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…
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July 19, 2024356
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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June 20, 2024186
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 20, 2024206
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024187
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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June 28, 2024395
Last Summer
With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…
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July 19, 2024512
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…
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June 20, 2024217
The Seeding
“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…
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June 20, 2024221
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…
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July 5, 2024424
The Nature of Love
Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into…
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June 20, 2024193
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024215
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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August 23, 2024538
Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…
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June 20, 2024198
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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June 20, 2024188
Infested
Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…
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June 20, 2024231
The Beach Boys
There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…
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August 16, 2024634
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 28, 2024461
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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July 5, 2024432
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…