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July 12, 2024461
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 19, 2024235
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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August 15, 2024397
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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June 21, 2024436
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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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 20, 2024271
Disappearing act at 37,000 feet
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000…
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August 16, 2024678
Rob Peace
“Rob Peace,” based on a true story about the tragically short but inspiring…
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July 4, 2024397
Kill
A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…
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June 20, 2024280
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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July 12, 2024362
Made in England: The Films of Power & Pressburger
At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell &…
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June 20, 2024368
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether…
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August 23, 2024551
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
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June 20, 2024240
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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June 20, 2024265
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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June 20, 2024232
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 19, 2024230
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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June 20, 2024251
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…
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June 20, 2024219
Infested
Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? Any of us who flinch…
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June 20, 2024257
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II…
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June 19, 2024226
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 20, 2024223
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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June 20, 2024269
Wicked Little Letters
“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a…
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August 9, 2024485
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…
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June 20, 2024236
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024233
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024289
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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June 20, 2024230
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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August 2, 2024495
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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June 20, 2024244
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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June 19, 2024392
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 19, 2024232
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 20, 2024211
Yannick
Both drawn-out and deceptively simple, the trippy French comedy “Yannick” re-imagines a…
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June 28, 2024478
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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August 7, 2024397
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024234
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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June 20, 2024256
The People’s Joker
Before you see a single frame of Vera Drew’s Batman-soaked satire “The…
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June 20, 2024243
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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August 9, 2024446
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 19, 2024228
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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June 20, 2024224
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, 2024236
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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July 3, 2024420
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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June 20, 2024226
MoviePass, MovieCrash
For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…
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June 20, 2024250
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, 2024510
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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June 20, 2024239
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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July 5, 2024441
MaXXXine
Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by…
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August 9, 2024486
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 21, 2024363
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024236
In Our Day
The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are…
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August 8, 2024394
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 20, 2024233
Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire
Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…
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August 9, 2024516
Hollywood Black
The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…
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August 16, 2024693
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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June 20, 2024235
You Can’t Stay Here
Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…
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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, 2024243
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The notion that love could blossom in the most horrifying of places say,…
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June 20, 2024277
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
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August 2, 2024350
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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June 20, 2024255
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 20, 2024569
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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July 5, 2024465
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, 2024244
Star Wars — Episode I: The Phantom Menace
We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…
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June 19, 2024232
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
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June 20, 2024226
K-19: The Widowmaker
Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…
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June 20, 2024235
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…
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June 20, 2024240
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 20, 2024238
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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June 20, 2024222
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 20, 2024246
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 20, 2024236
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and…
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June 20, 2024227
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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June 20, 2024248
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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June 20, 2024231
I Used to Be Funny
On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…
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June 20, 2024232
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, 2024223
You Can Call Me Bill
“I’m afraid of being alone,” intones William Shatner in the opening minutes…
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June 20, 2024230
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…
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June 20, 2024236
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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June 20, 2024245
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 28, 2024373
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…