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August 1, 2024348
War Game
Every day, people from all over the world come to Washington, DC,…
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August 16, 2024597
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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August 14, 2024405
Alien: Romulus
When Ridley Scott released “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” the main criticism levied…
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August 16, 2024575
Rule of Two Walls
More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked…
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August 2, 2024460
Doctor Jekyll
The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in…
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June 20, 2024200
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho…
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June 20, 2024197
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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June 20, 2024194
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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June 20, 2024241
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,”…
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June 20, 2024216
Sleeping Dogs
The Russell Crowe renaissance feels like it’s just around the corner. Although…
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June 20, 2024186
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
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June 20, 2024200
The Fall Guy
With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…
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July 12, 2024278
Sorry/Not Sorry
Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on…
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July 12, 2024396
National Anthem
In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer…
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August 1, 2024358
Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup…
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July 2, 2024391
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel…
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July 19, 2024397
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In the mode (but not the spirit) of documentaries like “Man on…
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July 12, 2024475
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
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June 20, 2024185
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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August 2, 2024309
Sebastian
Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my…
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August 23, 2024576
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, 2024212
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis…
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June 20, 2024197
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, 2024191
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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July 10, 2024393
Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you,…
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June 20, 2024207
The Truth vs. Alex Jones
One of the most disturbing moments in a documentary filled with disturbing…
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June 28, 2024510
Kalki 2898 – AD
There’s nothing original or particularly surprising about “Kalki 2898 AD,” a polished…
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June 20, 2024196
Queendom
Jenna Marvin is a fearless 21-year-old queer artist in Russia. Using found…
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June 19, 2024200
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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August 8, 2024347
Borderlands
I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software…
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July 19, 2024509
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…
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June 20, 2024186
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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July 3, 2024386
Despicable Me 4
“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind…
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August 23, 2024512
The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this…
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June 19, 2024195
Good country for dead men
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones.…
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June 19, 2024187
Good fences make bad neighbors
Neil LaBute’s “Lakeview Terrace” is a film about a black cop who…
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June 19, 2024195
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
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June 20, 2024192
The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of…
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July 15, 2024372
The Convert
In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns…
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June 19, 2024185
Imaginary
“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth…
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June 19, 2024193
Arcadian
For a few minutes, “Arcadian” basically becomes “Aliens” on an Irish farm…
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July 23, 2024469
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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August 15, 2024342
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
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June 20, 2024189
Madu
It’s recess at a small school in Nigeria and the boys are…
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June 20, 2024199
Nightmare
Sleep paralysis demons deserve a better fictional riff than “Nightmare,” a bland…
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June 26, 2024324
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
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June 20, 2024200
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, 2024185
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
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August 1, 2024417
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955…
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July 19, 2024390
Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So,…
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July 12, 2024337
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 20, 2024271
Code 8: Part II
Released in the spring of 2020, Jeff Chan’s anti-police sci-fi action film…
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August 9, 2024419
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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June 19, 2024201
Just the Two of Us
Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s…
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June 20, 2024196
15 Cameras
Nastiness in horror movies is like a seasoning: essential for flavor, though…
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June 20, 2024202
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
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June 20, 2024191
Maestra
Cate Blanchett’s searing performance in “Tár” left such an indelible impression that,…
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June 20, 2024187
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions…
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June 20, 2024206
Sunrise
“You know what he feeds on? Fear.” Generic dialogue and lack of…
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June 20, 2024204
LaRoy, Texas
“LaRoy, Texas” immediately tests your expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country…
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June 19, 2024193
Blackout
If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors?…
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June 20, 2024257
Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming…
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June 20, 2024208
Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked…
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June 20, 2024216
Phone Booth
“Phone Booth” is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or both.…
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June 21, 2024404
What Remains
For the first 15 minutes of “What Remains,” we follow around a…
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June 20, 2024188
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride…
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August 8, 2024311
Good One
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise…
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June 20, 2024227
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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June 20, 2024184
Tiger Stripes
In Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age tale, “Tiger Stripes,” a young girl in…
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July 26, 2024363
Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to…
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June 20, 2024215
Musica
In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…
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June 19, 2024188
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, 2024197
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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June 20, 2024223
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.”…
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June 20, 2024299
The Bikeriders
From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…
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August 16, 2024596
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
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August 23, 2024547
Hell Hole
The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…
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June 20, 2024197
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, 2024195
STAX: Soulsville, USA
“STAX: Soulsville USA” is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label’s…
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August 16, 2024652
The Union
Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker…