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June 20, 2024231
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
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June 19, 2024231
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
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July 26, 2024401
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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August 9, 2024488
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 20, 2024256
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, 2024225
His chauffeur chases ambulances
I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…
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June 20, 2024220
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 28, 2024371
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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August 2, 2024508
Rebel Moon – Director’s Cuts
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…
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June 20, 2024234
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 20, 2024276
Last act haunts ‘Hide and Seek’
A small girl is haunted by fears after her mother’s suicide. Her…
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June 20, 2024244
Love Lies Bleeding
Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) is introduced with her hand down a…
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June 20, 2024246
It’s Only Life After All
There’s a lot of ground to cover in “It’s Only Life After…
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June 20, 2024247
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, 2024273
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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June 19, 2024240
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures…
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June 20, 2024241
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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July 5, 2024439
MaXXXine
Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…
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June 20, 2024235
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 20, 2024237
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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July 12, 2024375
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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August 16, 2024690
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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June 20, 2024407
The Kitchen
A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…
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June 20, 2024227
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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June 19, 2024240
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 25, 2024376
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 20, 2024266
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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June 20, 2024249
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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June 20, 2024235
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 19, 2024388
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024216
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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June 20, 2024235
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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June 20, 2024241
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
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June 20, 2024241
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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July 11, 2024389
Fly Me to the Moon
“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…
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June 19, 2024228
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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June 24, 2024386
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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July 19, 2024383
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024235
Bodkin
Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…
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June 20, 2024222
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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June 20, 2024245
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 20, 2024277
Identity
It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…
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June 20, 2024237
Flipside
The personal essay film is a tricky genre, because when you get…
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August 9, 2024483
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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June 20, 2024224
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 19, 2024242
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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August 23, 2024578
Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is…
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August 23, 2024549
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 20, 2024217
Spaceman
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn…
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July 10, 2024429
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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June 20, 2024224
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 20, 2024244
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 19, 2024221
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 20, 2024231
Dream Scenario
There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage…
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June 19, 2024232
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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July 4, 2024391
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all,…
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June 21, 2024399
Trigger Warning
Beginning with a wonky opening chase sequence, “Trigger Warning” lacks urgency. Beginning…
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June 20, 2024228
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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July 19, 2024393
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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June 28, 2024427
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, 2024230
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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June 20, 2024244
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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June 20, 2024275
History of Evil
Ponderous and dull, “History of Evil” is the kind of script that…
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June 20, 2024378
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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July 23, 2024508
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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June 20, 2024224
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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July 22, 2024445
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 20, 2024219
The Watchers
When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…
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June 20, 2024254
Kim’s Video
“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on…
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June 20, 2024241
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 20, 2024232
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024222
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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August 9, 2024385
Duchess
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…
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June 20, 2024935
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…
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July 5, 2024438
Escape
The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…
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June 20, 2024254
The Seeding
“The Seeding,” a bleak horror movie about a hiker who gets trapped…
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June 20, 2024367
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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June 19, 2024225
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 21, 2024407
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024233
In Our Day
The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…