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July 5, 2024554
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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August 9, 2024568
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, 2024317
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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June 20, 2024318
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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June 19, 2024318
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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June 20, 2024326
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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August 9, 2024547
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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July 19, 2024530
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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August 23, 2024677
The Becomers
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think…
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June 20, 2024343
It’s Only Life After All
There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…
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July 26, 2024551
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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June 20, 2024313
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 26, 2024534
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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July 5, 2024583
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, 2024359
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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June 20, 2024373
Asphalt City
You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…
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July 22, 2024590
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 24, 2024474
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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August 22, 2024697
Mountains
Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work,…
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June 20, 2024336
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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June 20, 2024338
Force of Nature: The Dry 2
One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…
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July 5, 2024510
Escape
The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…
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August 23, 2024649
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…
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June 20, 2024316
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
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June 20, 2024386
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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June 19, 2024303
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 20, 2024325
Under Paris
Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…
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June 20, 2024337
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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August 8, 2024509
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 20, 2024420
The Marvels
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “The Marvels” is…
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June 20, 2024320
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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June 20, 2024344
The Last Stop in Yuma County
“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you…
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June 20, 2024327
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024320
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024335
I Did It My Way
You might enjoy the Hong Kong undercover cop drama “I Did It…
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June 20, 2024343
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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June 20, 2024311
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
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August 9, 2024583
The Last Front
“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much…
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June 20, 2024325
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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August 23, 2024695
Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…
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June 20, 2024353
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024313
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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June 19, 2024323
Good fences make bad neighbors
Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…
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June 20, 2024330
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 20, 2024349
The Seeding
“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…
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June 20, 2024318
Bella
“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…
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June 20, 2024330
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024362
Argylle
“Argylle,” the stumbling, overcooked action flick from director Matthew Vaughn, begins with…
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June 20, 2024329
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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June 19, 2024329
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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June 20, 2024383
Lisa Frankenstein
When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…
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June 20, 2024340
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
The end is just “the start of something,” according to one of…
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June 19, 2024315
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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August 14, 2024565
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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August 23, 2024679
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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August 7, 2024491
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 19, 2024310
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 20, 2024317
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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June 20, 2024328
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, 2024672
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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June 21, 2024493
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024321
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024321
The Grab
Instead of a feature-length movie, “The Grab,” a 106-minute documentary about shady…
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July 12, 2024481
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024321
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 28, 2024561
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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June 28, 2024480
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024358
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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July 12, 2024505
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024322
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
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June 20, 2024420
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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June 20, 2024367
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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June 20, 2024329
Ride
In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…
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July 12, 2024533
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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June 20, 2024352
Love Lies Bleeding
Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…
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August 23, 2024668
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 19, 2024350
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, 2024350
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, 2024325
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 20, 2024310
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…