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June 20, 2024186
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, 2024518
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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July 26, 2024375
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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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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June 20, 2024229
Asphalt City
You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…
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June 20, 2024185
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 19, 2024179
This Closeness
In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…
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June 20, 2024186
Wildcat
Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What…
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June 20, 2024188
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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June 20, 2024233
Lisa Frankenstein
When was the last time we got a teen-centric movie that felt…
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June 20, 2024196
The Family Plan
Mark Wahlberg has displayed enough comic timing and action chops in previous…
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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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June 20, 2024191
Black Barbie
“When I think of Barbie, I think of a little white doll…
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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, 2024242
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
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June 19, 2024176
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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June 20, 2024180
Night of the Hunted
How much do you want to be cornered by a vindictive energy…
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June 28, 2024316
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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July 19, 2024345
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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June 20, 2024182
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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June 19, 2024183
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
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June 20, 2024203
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024185
Taking Venice
In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice…
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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, 2024231
Art College 1994
It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…
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June 20, 2024186
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 20, 2024187
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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June 28, 2024319
The Vourdalak
A proudly old-fashioned Gothic fable with grain and grit, the delectable “Vourdalak”…
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June 20, 2024182
She became perfect in every area except life
Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity,…
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June 19, 2024188
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024193
I’m a Virgo
It’s been five years since director Boots Riley’s riot of a debut,…
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June 20, 2024182
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
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June 20, 2024175
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
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July 4, 2024337
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 19, 2024186
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 21, 2024315
The Exorcism
In Joshua John Miller’s “The Exorcism,” Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, an actor…
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June 20, 2024181
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024187
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead
Director Wade Allain-Marcus’s “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a remake…
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June 20, 2024194
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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June 20, 2024195
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
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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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August 16, 2024634
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…
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July 5, 2024467
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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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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July 26, 2024357
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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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, 2024180
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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July 19, 2024386
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…
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June 20, 2024726
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it…
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August 23, 2024489
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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July 3, 2024375
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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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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July 8, 2024332
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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June 20, 2024249
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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June 20, 2024186
Stormy
Opening night at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival may have…
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August 9, 2024417
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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July 2, 2024382
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…
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June 20, 2024180
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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June 20, 2024187
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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June 20, 2024233
Brats
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…
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June 20, 2024198
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge…
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June 21, 2024305
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
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June 20, 2024185
The Ring
Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result than…
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August 2, 2024453
Doctor Jekyll
The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…
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July 19, 2024345
Great Absence
Kei Chika-ura’s “Great Absence” is obviously a personal piece, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024181
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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June 20, 2024198
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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June 20, 2024186
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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August 23, 2024546
Decoded
The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…
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June 20, 2024176
Ride
In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks crooned, “Well, it’s bulls and blood/It’s…
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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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June 20, 2024218
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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June 20, 2024192
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of…
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August 16, 2024588
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 19, 2024186
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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August 2, 2024451
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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June 20, 2024184
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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June 20, 2024226
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story
A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe…
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June 20, 2024186
You Can’t Run Forever
J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about…
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July 4, 2024352
Space Cadet
You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…