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August 1, 2024441
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…
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June 20, 2024280
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024209
Marrying into a nightmare
“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…
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June 20, 2024925
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, 2024224
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 20, 2024216
The Blue Angels
“The Blue Angels,” a nonfiction film about the Navy’s flight demonstration team, was…
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June 21, 2024390
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024225
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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June 20, 2024217
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 20, 2024278
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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August 9, 2024443
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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June 20, 2024221
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall…
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August 16, 2024648
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a…
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June 20, 2024208
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 19, 2024215
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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June 20, 2024270
Lisa Frankenstein
When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…
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June 20, 2024227
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 prequel “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”…
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July 12, 2024386
Eno
Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative…
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June 20, 2024355
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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August 23, 2024529
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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August 16, 2024606
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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June 20, 2024278
This train’s got the disappearin’ Western blues
James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western…
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June 20, 2024217
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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June 20, 2024232
Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces
There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…
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June 20, 2024226
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 20, 2024219
No more than three hostages allowed on most trips
Why do I have to watch this movie? Why does anyone? What…
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June 20, 2024295
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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June 28, 2024390
Music
Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…
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June 20, 2024501
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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June 20, 2024225
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…
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August 9, 2024370
Duchess
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…
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June 20, 2024243
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…
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June 20, 2024221
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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June 20, 2024257
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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June 20, 2024215
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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June 20, 2024216
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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July 12, 2024302
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 20, 2024273
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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July 19, 2024416
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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June 19, 2024221
Treasure
The Australian-born novelist and essayist Lily Brett is the daughter of Holocaust…
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July 19, 2024374
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024229
Foe
Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…
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June 19, 2024377
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, 2024213
One Hour Photo
“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…
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June 20, 2024393
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 20, 2024271
Departing Seniors
The horror movie element isn’t even the most compelling part of the…
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July 3, 2024409
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 20, 2024221
You Can’t Run Forever
J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…
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June 20, 2024232
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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June 20, 2024246
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024226
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 20, 2024220
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
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June 20, 2024214
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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June 20, 2024230
Black Barbie
“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…
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June 20, 2024221
De Niro and Norton in a psychological duel
“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…
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August 23, 2024539
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 20, 2024379
Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…
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June 20, 2024232
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…
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June 20, 2024214
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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June 19, 2024216
Dogman
It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…
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June 20, 2024217
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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July 4, 2024383
Kill
A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…
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June 20, 2024217
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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August 2, 2024489
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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August 8, 2024329
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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August 2, 2024489
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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June 26, 2024356
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 19, 2024220
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, 2024227
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 20, 2024216
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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June 19, 2024222
Banel & Adama
The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be…
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June 20, 2024223
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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August 9, 2024510
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 20, 2024214
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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July 15, 2024406
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 20, 2024219
Humane
The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…
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June 20, 2024232
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
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June 20, 2024220
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
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June 20, 2024220
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 20, 2024236
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…