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June 20, 2024329
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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June 20, 2024332
Fighter
Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military…
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June 20, 2024329
No One Will Save You
Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…
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June 20, 2024426
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
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June 20, 2024322
Firebrand
Alicia Vikander is the titular “Firebrand,” starring as Katherine Parr, the sixth…
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July 12, 2024473
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, 2024350
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 20, 2024321
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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June 20, 2024349
Femme
Written and directed by Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman, “Femme”…
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June 20, 2024350
Pioneer
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If “Pioneer,” a mixed bag of a…
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June 20, 2024331
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun’s second narrative feature is a gnawing search for belonging in…
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July 26, 2024496
Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…
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June 20, 2024329
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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June 20, 2024317
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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June 20, 2024316
Yannick
Both drawn-out and deceptively simple, the trippy French comedy “Yannick” re-imagines a…
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June 19, 2024343
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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June 20, 2024316
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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June 20, 2024374
Art College 1994
It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of…
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August 23, 2024686
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 20, 2024372
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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August 16, 2024754
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
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June 20, 2024678
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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June 19, 2024355
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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June 20, 2024334
Mayhem!
An exclamation point in a title is a promise. The first action…
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June 20, 2024434
The Bikeriders
From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…
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July 5, 2024517
Escape
The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift…
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July 30, 2024565
Hundreds of Beavers
“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…
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June 20, 2024316
Backspot
“Backspot” does for competitive cheerleading what “The Novice” did for rowing: It…
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June 20, 2024317
Maestra
Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…
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June 19, 2024311
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 19, 2024327
Mother of the Bride
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of opulent…
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June 27, 2024510
A Quiet Place: Day One
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding…
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June 20, 2024312
Eric
It takes either a staggering lead performance or a great plot twist…
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June 19, 2024321
Blackout
If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…
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June 19, 2024314
This Closeness
In a big city, avoiding eye contact is a survival tool. Looking…
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June 20, 2024318
The First Omen
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in…
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August 2, 2024642
Rebel Moon – Director’s Cuts
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly…
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June 20, 2024316
The Roundup: Punishment
“The Roundup: Punishment” is the third sequel in a series of Korean…
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August 8, 2024516
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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June 28, 2024531
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, 2024321
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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June 20, 2024423
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, 2024358
Out of Darkness
Cinematic depictions of ancient or near-ancient times have come a long way…
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July 19, 2024480
Crumb Catcher
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with…
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June 20, 2024341
Force of Nature: The Dry 2
One of the pleasures of being a critic is getting assigned to…
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June 20, 2024335
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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June 20, 2024503
The Strangers: Chapter 1
2008’s “The Strangers” didn’t seem like the kind of film that would…
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July 11, 2024504
Fly Me to the Moon
“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political…
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August 2, 2024437
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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June 20, 2024336
The Sacrifice Game
The supernatural hostage thriller “The Sacrifice Game” feels like a self-conscious throwback,…
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June 20, 2024392
Brats
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that…
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July 4, 2024502
Kill
A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,”…
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June 20, 2024352
The most dangerous job in the Army
A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…
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August 23, 2024651
Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy…
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June 25, 2024463
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration…
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June 19, 2024318
Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type…
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June 20, 2024339
The signpost is accurate
“Road to Nowhere” plays like an exercise in frustrating audiences. Imagine a…
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July 22, 2024598
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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July 12, 2024510
Touch
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over…
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August 9, 2024626
Hollywood Black
The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you…
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August 6, 2024553
Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling…
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June 19, 2024330
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, 2024334
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
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August 9, 2024499
Duchess
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in…
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August 9, 2024601
Sugarcane
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens…
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June 28, 2024465
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in…
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June 20, 2024340
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 19, 2024310
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 20, 2024375
Asphalt City
You may remember a scene in the cult classic “Repo Man” in…
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June 21, 2024496
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024334
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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June 20, 2024312
His chauffeur chases ambulances
I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…
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June 24, 2024476
Janet Planet
When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne…
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June 20, 2024345
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 20, 2024345
The Creator
It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of…
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June 20, 2024326
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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June 19, 2024345
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenburg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people…
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July 12, 2024573
Sing Sing
If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it…
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June 20, 2024313
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
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June 20, 2024312
K-19: The Widowmaker
Movies involving submarines have the logic of chess: The longer the game…