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9 months ago
The lack of focus from director Peter Sillen makes “Love Machina” a trying documentary despite a mildly interesting subject. Sillen can’t quite decide where he wants to center his film, which makes for a messy, confusing, and often boring re... Read the full review »
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9 months ago
The by-the-book documentary “The Greatest Night in Pop” isn’t particularly well made or insightful, but it is an absolutely blast. This film, from director Bao Nguyen, amounts to a 1980s time capsule and walk down memory lane for Gen Xers. A... Read the full review »
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9 months ago
It’s inevitable that writer-director Jon Bell’s “The Moogai” will encourage comparisons to Jennifer Kent’s 2014 film “The Babadook” due to its similar subject matter and themes. It’s not a carbon copy, but this trauma horror tale d... Read the full review »
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9 months ago
“The Taste of Things” is a romantic drama that’s also a historically accurate period film about food. Set in 1885, this is a slow moving love letter to the art and style of French cuisine, and director Anh Hung Tran takes great pleasure in h... Read the full review »
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9 months ago
The undeniable appeal and charisma of rapper-turned-actor Snoop Dogg is the highlight of R-rated comedy “The Underdoggs,” a not half bad inspirational sports film from director Charles Stone III. Loosely based on the Snoop Youth Football Leagu... Read the full review »
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9 months ago
Based on her own personal experience with egg harvesting, writer, director, and actor Leah McKendrick‘s “Scrambled” feels like an authentic account of what it’s like to be a thirtysomething woman who is feeling the intense pressure of a ti... Read the full review »
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9 months ago
As a fan of director Matthew Vaughn (“Kingsman: The Secret Service” is one of my personal all-time favorite movies), I was let down by his latest project “Argylle,” a borderline total debacle from start to finish. Everything from the weak... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
The biggest takeaway I got after screening “Mean Girls,” the big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, is that there is a reason you haven’t heard of any of the songs. There’s also a clear reason why the studio decided to dump this on... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
I could feel my pulse quickening over the duration of “The Teachers’ Lounge,” a film that seems designed to ramp up the tension with its dramatic pressure cooker of a plot. Co-writer and director Ilker Çatak‘s film isn’t a traditional t... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
There’s a quiet elegance and graceful beauty in the repetition of “Perfect Days,” a poetic, visually lyrical character study from director Wim Wenders. With a script co-written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki, this nuanced film embraces the s... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
The one-note comedy “Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain” is sloppily written, poorly acted, and lacks any semblance of an inspired comedic spark. The premise may be decent, but the large amount of failed and unfunny attempt... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
One of the best things I can say about director Zack Snyder‘s sci-fi space epic “Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire” is that at least it’s not totally unwatchable. It certainly is a total mess of a movie (which was supposedly inspire... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
One of the best things I can say about director Zack Snyder‘s sci-fi space epic “Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire” is that at least it’s not totally unwatchable. It certainly is a total mess of a movie (which was supposedly inspire... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
You can always count on Nicolas Cage to take on projects with interesting subject matter, and “Dream Scenario” is one of his more unforgettable roles to date. This abstract, satirical social horror film from writer / director Kristoffer Borgli... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
Memory (2023)

Memory (2023)

6 / 10
With its profound and compassionate storytelling, writer-director Michel Franco‘s “Memory” is a beautiful film on so many levels. His story of loneliness, trauma, and connection between two broken people is a moving character study that’s... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
There’s a sadly lackluster feel to parts of director Blitz Bazawule‘s “The Color Purple,” a reimagined adaptation of Alice Walker’s beloved novel that combines elements of the original 1985 film with the Broadway musical. This updated ve... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
I felt a great deal of distress after watching “The Zone of Interest,” a haunting, gorgeously directed film from Jonathan Glazer. Based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, the film explores the horror of the Holocaust not by focusing on the mill... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
Thematically, there certainly is a lot to chew on in “Leave the World Behind,” director Sam Esmail‘s adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s suspenseful, provocative New York Times bestselling novel. This is a case where the director is the ideal fit... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
As far as R-rated comedies go, “Anyone But You” is fairly tame. There isn’t much of a raunch factor here, and the biggest surprise about this rom-com for adults is that it’s much better than I ever could have expected it to be. It checks a... Read the full review »
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1 year ago
As someone who typically doesn’t enjoy monster movies, I realize that I am not a member of the target audience for “Godzilla Minus One.” As a critic, it’s my job to be objective when evaluating a piece of cinema, and very little about this... Read the full review »