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July 23, 2024527
Deadpool & Wolverine
“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine…
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June 20, 2024254
La Chimera
“La Chimera” plays like a magical realism version of the classic one-last-heist movie. The core of…
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June 28, 2024520
A Family Affair
As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations…
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June 20, 2024250
De Niro and Norton in a psychological duel
“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…
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June 19, 2024240
Power
Police brutality is a subject that never seems to leave the news.…
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June 20, 2024250
The Young Wife
Despite what everyone says, weddings aren’t really about the bride and groom.…
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June 28, 2024468
A Sacrifice
The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that…
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June 20, 2024246
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
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June 19, 2024250
Kung Fu Panda 4
Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy…
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August 16, 2024648
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
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June 20, 2024249
Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire
Among this past year’s unexpected synchronicities, there’s now a shared space in…
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August 9, 2024483
Daughters
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She…
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June 19, 2024246
Poolman
Chris Pine’s first film as a director, “Poolman,” is a character comedy about oddball…
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June 20, 2024243
I Used to Be Funny
On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp,…
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July 12, 2024328
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
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June 20, 2024271
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
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June 20, 2024582
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
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June 20, 2024234
Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers worldwide. She’s…
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July 30, 2024444
Hundreds of Beavers
“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a…
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August 9, 2024475
Dance First
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t…
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June 20, 2024260
The Beast
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”)…
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June 20, 2024242
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
“Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.,” a film by playwright Jeremy…
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June 19, 2024242
Dusk for a Hitman
“Dusk for a Hitman” is a husk of a great film. Director…
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June 20, 2024242
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych…
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July 22, 2024455
The Way We Speak
Set at a conference for “thought leaders,” “The Way We Speak” is…
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June 20, 2024241
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, 2024253
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
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June 20, 2024244
Long night’s journey into collapse
It may have happened something like this. “Margin Call” depicts the last…
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July 12, 2024393
Sisi & I
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t…
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June 19, 2024410
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 20, 2024245
Gasoline Rainbow
Brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross straddle the lines of documentary…
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July 22, 2024507
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a…
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June 20, 2024230
Abigail
The trailer for “Abigail” tells you almost everything you need to know…
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August 23, 2024618
Decoded
The Chinese WW2 spy thriller “Decoded” stands out for a number of…
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June 20, 2024232
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of…
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June 20, 2024244
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination,…
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July 4, 2024405
Space Cadet
You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an…
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June 20, 2024245
The Last Rider
This chronicle of retired American cyclist Greg LeMond’s tiring, tumultuous return to…
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June 20, 2024241
Disappear Completely
The truly impressive slice of nightmare fuel, “Disappear Completely,” premiering on Netflix today…
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June 20, 2024269
Musica
In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…
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June 20, 2024245
The Fall Guy
With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty…
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July 5, 2024533
The Imaginary
Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room…
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June 20, 2024394
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
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June 20, 2024237
Late Night with the Devil
Is there any scenario in which “Late Night with the Devil” could have…
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June 21, 2024420
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
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June 20, 2024253
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
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June 20, 2024526
Land of Bad
There are two heroes in the frustrating military actioner “Land of Bad,”…
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June 20, 2024245
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly…
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August 16, 2024655
Skincare
When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in…
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June 21, 2024437
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
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July 5, 2024476
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, 2024275
Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future…
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June 19, 2024246
Prom Dates
“Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble…
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June 19, 2024240
Blood for Dust
Set in 1992 in the northernmost United States, where criminals run drugs…
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June 20, 2024258
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, 2024294
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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August 7, 2024407
It Ends With Us
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed…
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June 20, 2024308
Chicken for Linda!
I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for…
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June 20, 2024235
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
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June 19, 2024239
Road House
“Road House” likes to explicitly reference that it thinks it’s a Western.…
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June 20, 2024260
Open Windows
Heavily inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Brian De Palma, Nacho Vigalondo’s…
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June 20, 2024230
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
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June 19, 2024251
Tuesday
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance of breathtaking vulnerability as the mother of…
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June 19, 2024262
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many…
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July 19, 2024564
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…
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July 12, 2024373
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, 2024239
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
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June 20, 2024249
Clipped
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning…
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June 20, 2024253
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Like many people of my approximate age, my childhood was heavily touched…
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June 20, 2024260
Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces
There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative…
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June 20, 2024249
Lift
“Lift” is as generic and forgettable as its title, the kind of…
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June 20, 2024239
MoviePass, MovieCrash
For a few gossamer years in the 2010s, movie fans ate well—perhaps…
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July 19, 2024413
Widow Clicquot
I haven’t had a drink in almost fifteen years, and during the…
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July 19, 2024405
My Spy The Eternal City
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with…
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June 20, 2024249
Lumberjack the Monster
It’s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have…
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June 19, 2024246
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, 2024256
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 20, 2024257
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
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June 20, 2024246
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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August 9, 2024498
Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director…