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2 months ago
Color me surprised by the bloody fun action-horror film “They Will Kill You,” a chaotic, stylish, and high energy cinematic ride from director Kirill Sokolov. Action packed and deliciously self-aware, this unmistakable homage to “Kill Bill�... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
Found footage horror films can be a mixed bag, especially because so many of them tend to end up feeling repetitive or gimmicky. That’s why writer and director Brandon Christensen‘s “Bodycam” ended up being a pleasant surprise. Even though... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
“The Bride!” is a wildly theatrical, genre-bending reinvention of the classic Bride of Frankenstein tale, recast through a feminist, punk-rock lens that’s as messy as it is exhilarating. Writer and director Maggie Gyllenhaal takes a story lo... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
I really dug the fluidity of “The Chronology of Water,” the feature directorial debut from Kristen Stewart. This unsettling film navigates a woman’s emotional healing with a raw, sexually charged and wholly angry point of view. Adapted from... Read the full review »
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Director Akinola Davies’ incredibly personal debut feature “My Father’s Shadow” offers an intimate family portrait set against the political uncertainty of 1993 Lagos. Framed during a pivotal national election that signals a possible trans... Read the full review »
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The Pixar animated adventure “Hoppers” is a delightful, heartfelt, and surprisingly thought-provoking film that manages to be funny, goofy, and moving all at once. The story follows the passionate and highly determined college student Mabel (v... Read the full review »
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“Rosemead” is a grim, uneven drama that aims for emotional depth and cultural insight but too often sinks under its own weight. Despite its urgent subject matter and the potential for a truly piercing story, the film rarely musters the momentu... Read the full review »
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Although there’s something oddly familiar about director Sam Raimi’s “Send Help,” there’s a deliciously wicked tone to the classic deserted island setup. This is a dark (and bloody) film that has a devilish mean streak, and it’s one wh... Read the full review »
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Ill-conceived sequel “Greenland 2: Migration” feels assembled entirely from leftover disaster movie clichés and rejected streaming scripts. While the first film at least had some tension, this unnecessary follow-up throws all of that out the... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
I’m so excited about the new life being breathed into the zombie franchise with “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” a strange and brutal entry into the “28 Days” canon. The film works better as a piece of standalone dystopian horror than... Read the full review »
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“The Secret Agent” is a smart, immersive, slow burn thriller that wears its political history lightly while never letting you forget the weight of what’s at stake. I loved everything about writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s fanta... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
Enchanting but also irritating, Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” feels like the cinematic equivalent of hanging out with your coolest, most pretentious film school friends in a Paris café circa 1959, and I mean that as both a compliment... Read the full review »
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In her quietly searing adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir, actor-turned-director Embeth Davidtz delivers an intimate film version of “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight.” This complex and unsettling story explores the collapse of wh... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is an intense, edge-of-your-seat thriller that puts you right in the middle of a terrifyingly plausible nuclear crisis. Her signature shaky-cam style can be hard to settle into at first, but it perfect... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
“Sirāt” is an evocative and hypnotic journey that places grief and obsession against the vast, unforgiving landscapes of southern Morocco. While slow to start with an aimless feel, the film goes places you’d never expect and is filled with... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
The lush, mournful, and beautifully crafted “Hamnet” takes a deeply personal approach to one of the most mythologized figures in Western literature. Instead of focusing on Shakespeare the legend, director Chloé Zhao turns her lens toward Shak... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
Director Paul Feig clearly wants his big screen version of Freida McFadden‘s bestselling novel “The Housemaid” to be a racy, subversive thriller about power, secrets, and women reclaiming control, but what he actually delivers is a trashy, s... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
I was so disappointed in writer / director Bryan Fuller’s “Dust Bunny,” a film that wants to be a lot of things (whimsical, terrifying, emotional, quirky, profound) but ultimately ends up being none of them. The movie serves up a crackerjack... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
Full of emotional landmines, Joachim Trier’s complex and deeply human “Sentimental Value” is a slow, talky tale of forgiveness and communication. It digs deep into family messiness and the blurry line between art and life, and it will hit ha... Read the full review »
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2 months ago
Adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s novel, “Die My Love” is a suffocating, overwrought exercise in self-importance. Director Lynne Ramsay wants so desperately to be profound with her unflinching exploration of postpartum depression, isolation, and... Read the full review »