Mystery
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Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King (Channing Tatum), a tech billionaire, via a television…
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Close Your Eyes
The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature from Spanish director Victor Erice, and his first…
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Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director Tilman Singer goes in articulating the strange goings-on…
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Detained
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling logical human behavior in “Detained,” the film that…
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The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road House,” the plastic, overwrought remake of the 1980s…
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Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words being spelled out letter by letter. The time…
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Lady in the Lake
Within the first two minutes of Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake,” we learn that one of the series protagonists…
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Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you, and make you think about it hours or…
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The Devil’s Bath
When does rooting for the damned stop being worthwhile or even productive? Viewers’ sympathies are worked over throughout the grim…
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Alphaville
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven’t seen, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 “Alphaville” is a combination…
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