Crime
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Dead Mail
A horror film set in the 1980s with a synthesizer score is nothing new. But “Dead Mail,” the second feature…
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Salvable
Bjorn Franklin and Johnny Marchetta’s melancholy boxing drama “Salvable” hits many of the familiar sports movie beats but manages a…
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Neighborhood Watch
The question “Did I really see what I thought I saw?” has been potent fuel for thrillers since well before…
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House of Games
This review was originally published on October 16, 1987. This movie is awake. I have seen so many films that…
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The Pledge
This review was originally published on June 19, 2001. Sean Penn‘s “The Pledge” begins as a police story and spirals…
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Revelations
I admittedly had high hopes for Yeon Sang-ho’s “Revelations.” For one, “Train to Busan” and its sequel “Peninsula” are hell-raising…
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Strange Darling
“Strange Darling,” J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is so high on its own cleverness that it…
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The Killer (2024)
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this critic. The one-two punch of Woo’s 1989 action…
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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser than “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In,” a…
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Duchess
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in the ‘90s, dozens of imitators tried to mimic…
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