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June 20, 2024172
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
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June 28, 2024378
Last Summer
With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…
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June 28, 2024416
June Zero
There’s no shortage of films that consider the Holocaust or Israel’s founding. But…
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June 20, 2024176
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
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June 20, 2024207
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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June 28, 2024384
Green Border
A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar…
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July 19, 2024329
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024218
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
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June 20, 2024214
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s…
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June 20, 2024173
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 20, 2024203
The Animal Kingdom
Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his…
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June 20, 2024178
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 20, 2024205
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
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June 28, 2024400
A Sacrifice
The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…
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June 28, 2024409
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
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June 28, 2024262
Daddio
Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through…
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June 20, 2024167
On the Adamant
At first glance, the barge docked on the Seine in Paris near…
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June 20, 2024258
Share?
Did you know that social media fosters toxic relationships among its users,…
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August 9, 2024444
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
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June 20, 2024172
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
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August 23, 2024474
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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August 2, 2024425
Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words…
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August 14, 2024382
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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July 26, 2024344
The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as…
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June 20, 2024199
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
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August 9, 2024409
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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June 20, 2024214
Limbo
The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…
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June 20, 2024177
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, 2024172
Queens
The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…
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June 20, 2024173
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024165
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at…
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July 26, 2024336
Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…
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June 20, 2024180
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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July 16, 2024403
Twisters
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider…
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June 20, 2024172
It’s a Wonderful Knife
If you put Nancy Drew in a teen slasher take of “It’s…
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August 2, 2024439
The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road…
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July 12, 2024374
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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June 20, 2024170
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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June 20, 2024170
A demon in the house
“Paranormal Activity” is an ingenious little horror film, so well made it’s…
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June 20, 2024169
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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June 20, 2024174
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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August 6, 2024385
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 20, 2024456
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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August 16, 2024606
My Penguin Friend
There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing…
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July 11, 2024333
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, 2024218
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, 2024187
Sight
In Andrew Hyatt’s “Sight,” what you see is what you get. The…
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June 20, 2024165
Fast Charlie
The other night I was channel surfing and I stopped for a…
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July 4, 2024344
Space Cadet
You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…
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June 20, 2024180
Role Play
Emma (Kaley Cuoco) lives a double life. She has a loving husband,…
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July 8, 2024318
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah…
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June 20, 2024175
Evil Does Not Exist
“You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a…
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June 19, 2024170
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 20, 2024169
High & Low – John Galliano
“High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took me…
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July 4, 2024325
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 20, 2024216
Identity
It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…
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June 20, 2024185
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding…
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June 20, 2024164
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024195
Musica
In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…
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June 20, 2024169
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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August 21, 2024514
Close Your Eyes
The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature…
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June 20, 2024173
Bodkin
Netflix’s new comedic thriller “Bodkin” opens with the show’s protagonist, Gilbert Power…
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June 20, 2024164
Silent Night
John Woo’s new film is a revenge thriller with such a predictable plot that one…
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July 5, 2024405
Mother, Couch
From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking…
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June 20, 2024174
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…
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August 15, 2024323
Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in…
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August 9, 2024363
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, 2024166
Good fences make bad neighbors
Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…
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June 20, 2024173
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood’s “Blood Work” opens with an FBI agent of retirement age…
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August 9, 2024414
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, 2024164
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on…
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June 20, 2024168
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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July 26, 2024366
The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And…
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June 19, 2024167
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…
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June 19, 2024164
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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July 26, 2024354
The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect…
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June 20, 2024176
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…
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June 19, 2024249
The Idea of You
Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…
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June 20, 2024176
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same…
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August 1, 2024394
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…