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June 20, 2024181
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…
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June 19, 2024180
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 19, 2024173
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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August 16, 2024583
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
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June 19, 2024179
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 20, 2024185
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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August 9, 2024359
Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a…
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June 19, 2024179
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
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June 20, 2024185
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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August 1, 2024407
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…
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June 19, 2024180
Immaculate
“Immaculate” feels like both a throwback to another era of Italian horror…
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June 20, 2024191
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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July 19, 2024476
Scala!!!
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious,…
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June 20, 2024184
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…
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July 19, 2024379
Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,”…
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June 20, 2024189
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 20, 2024363
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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June 20, 2024191
Under Paris
Xavier Gens is back with his second stateside release of the year…
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June 20, 2024185
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 19, 2024175
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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June 28, 2024315
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 20, 2024210
Founders Day
Advertising “Founder Days” as a “bold political slasher” gives too much credit…
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August 8, 2024300
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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June 20, 2024177
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024178
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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June 20, 2024177
The Watchers
When it comes to kooky, creative thrillers, Shyamalan is practically a brand.…
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August 23, 2024566
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 20, 2024180
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
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June 20, 2024186
The Truth About Charlie
Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…
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June 19, 2024187
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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July 22, 2024430
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 20, 2024180
High & Low – John Galliano
“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…
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July 5, 2024417
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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June 20, 2024182
One Hour Photo
“One Hour Photo” tells the story of Seymour “Sy” Parrish, who works…
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July 26, 2024356
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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June 20, 2024187
Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire
Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…
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June 20, 2024517
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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August 23, 2024539
Hell Hole
The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…
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June 19, 2024185
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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July 19, 2024362
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
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June 20, 2024220
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or…
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August 23, 2024482
The Crow
Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…
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August 16, 2024357
The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…
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June 20, 2024175
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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July 22, 2024392
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 20, 2024185
Twelve angry Russians
“Twelve Angry Men” remains a monument of American filmmaking, and more than…
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June 28, 2024450
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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June 20, 2024194
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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July 12, 2024364
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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June 20, 2024208
Femme
Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…
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August 2, 2024451
Doctor Jekyll
The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…
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June 20, 2024178
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse”…
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June 20, 2024191
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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July 16, 2024416
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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July 12, 2024413
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 27, 2024358
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024231
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, 2024173
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
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August 9, 2024411
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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June 20, 2024206
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 19, 2024179
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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June 20, 2024178
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
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June 20, 2024181
Night Swim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the…
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August 2, 2024300
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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June 20, 2024216
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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June 19, 2024338
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, 2024197
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…
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June 20, 2024180
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
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July 30, 2024374
Hundreds of Beavers
“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…
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July 11, 2024344
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 20, 2024195
Foe
Junior (Paul Mescal) and Hen (Saoirse Ronan) are not a happy couple.…
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July 2, 2024381
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…
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June 20, 2024198
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024179
Humane
The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…
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June 20, 2024187
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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June 20, 2024207
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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August 2, 2024449
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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July 19, 2024360
Customs Frontline
Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…
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June 21, 2024368
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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June 20, 2024192
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…