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June 20, 2024243
The Beach Boys
There’s something so appropriately disheartening about a movie about The Beach Boys…
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June 20, 2024213
The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed
I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”…
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June 20, 2024217
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 20, 2024214
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, 2024208
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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July 15, 2024389
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 19, 2024215
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 20, 2024228
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 20, 2024208
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024222
State of Consciousness
It takes up to four men to restrain Emile Hirsch in “State…
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June 20, 2024366
Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t…
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June 19, 2024199
Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over…
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June 20, 2024281
Share?
Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…
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August 9, 2024493
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 19, 2024208
Just the Two of Us
Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…
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June 20, 2024202
Ride
In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…
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June 20, 2024208
Five Nights at Freddy’s
How to make sense of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a family-friendly horror…
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June 20, 2024212
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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June 20, 2024208
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 28, 2024439
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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June 20, 2024190
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
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June 20, 2024229
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 21, 2024334
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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June 19, 2024202
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 28, 2024291
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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June 20, 2024335
Concrete Utopia
In big cities the world over, housing is a high-priced commodity. Construction…
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August 16, 2024642
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 20, 2024222
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024206
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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June 28, 2024377
Music
Music, we are told, makes the people come together. Music, it so…
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July 19, 2024402
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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June 19, 2024202
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…
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June 20, 2024223
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024209
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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August 23, 2024585
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, 2024199
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 20, 2024200
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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June 19, 2024196
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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June 20, 2024187
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
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 20, 2024202
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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June 19, 2024201
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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June 20, 2024192
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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June 20, 2024197
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 19, 2024195
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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June 20, 2024205
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, 2024194
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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June 20, 2024205
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…
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August 2, 2024473
Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha…
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June 20, 2024339
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 21, 2024328
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024235
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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June 20, 2024264
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024204
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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July 12, 2024383
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024244
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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June 21, 2024388
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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August 15, 2024360
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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August 1, 2024428
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…
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June 20, 2024207
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 20, 2024303
The Tiger’s Apprentice
At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…
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July 5, 2024436
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, 2024208
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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July 12, 2024371
Lumina
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s…
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June 19, 2024196
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 20, 2024489
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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June 20, 2024206
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
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July 10, 2024406
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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August 9, 2024410
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…
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August 16, 2024599
Close to You
There are two main types of stories about smalltown people finding themselves:…
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August 2, 2024493
Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy…
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June 20, 2024198
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 20, 2024209
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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July 5, 2024422
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, 2024200
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 20, 2024266
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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June 26, 2024336
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 28, 2024421
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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June 20, 2024213
Stress Positions
Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that…
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June 20, 2024254
Divinity
In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…