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August 23, 2024484
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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July 19, 2024347
Hollywoodgate
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, you couldn’t…
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July 16, 2024410
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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July 26, 2024362
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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August 16, 2024582
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 19, 2024255
The Idea of You
Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…
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June 20, 2024236
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 20, 2024177
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, 2024230
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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June 20, 2024177
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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August 1, 2024345
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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June 20, 2024180
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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June 20, 2024167
Naked Acts
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,”…
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July 12, 2024383
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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June 20, 2024175
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 20, 2024179
Force of Nature: The Dry 2
One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…
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June 20, 2024181
The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
Characterizing Belgian co-directors/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since…
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June 20, 2024185
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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July 10, 2024377
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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August 7, 2024339
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024211
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
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June 20, 2024180
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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July 23, 2024450
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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June 20, 2024189
Under Paris
Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…
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June 19, 2024172
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 20, 2024175
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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June 19, 2024185
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024182
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 20, 2024179
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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July 22, 2024388
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 28, 2024310
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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August 23, 2024538
Decoded
The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…
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August 21, 2024526
Close Your Eyes
The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…
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June 20, 2024167
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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June 28, 2024418
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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July 5, 2024409
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, 2024187
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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June 20, 2024196
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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June 19, 2024178
Amelia’s Children
I’m not really sure how genre fans will respond to “Amelia’s Children,”…
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June 20, 2024174
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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June 20, 2024176
Marrying into a nightmare
“All Good Things” is based on one of those true stories like…
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June 20, 2024206
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 19, 2024183
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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June 20, 2024185
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…
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June 20, 2024170
Ride
In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…
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June 20, 2024179
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 28, 2024481
Kalki 2898 – AD
There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…
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June 20, 2024184
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
A local icon in San Francisco who made a national impact on…
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August 2, 2024431
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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June 20, 2024213
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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July 12, 2024304
Made in England: The Films of Power & Pressburger
At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…
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June 21, 2024357
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024183
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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July 19, 2024358
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 20, 2024272
The Tiger’s Apprentice
At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to…
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June 28, 2024385
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, 2024214
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, 2024262
Share?
Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…
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August 9, 2024375
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…
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June 20, 2024179
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 20, 2024192
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, 2024175
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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June 20, 2024175
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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July 5, 2024389
Escape
The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…
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June 19, 2024178
Dogman
It can be fun to watch a gifted character chew scenery, especially…
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June 20, 2024172
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024187
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 20, 2024185
Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire
Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…
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June 20, 2024173
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
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June 20, 2024178
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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June 20, 2024203
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 20, 2024382
Thelma
When you hear the premise of Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” you…
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June 20, 2024177
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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June 20, 2024209
The Synanon Fix
Rory Kennedy is a phenomenal interviewer. We’ve seen this before in her…
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June 20, 2024178
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
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June 20, 2024206
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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August 8, 2024335
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 20, 2024210
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, 2024172
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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June 24, 2024336
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…