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Heel turns: 23 movie stars cast against type as villains
By The A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Katie Rife, Clayton Purdom, William Hughes, Jesse Hassenger, Noel Murray, Laura Adamczyk, Gwen Ihnat August 8, 2018 | 11:00am
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Celebrating Black Panther, Afrofuturism, and black creativity at the first-ever Wakandacon
By Baraka Kaseko August 6, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Christopher Robin gives Winnie The Pooh and his furry friends the Hook treatment
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 3, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Maid In Manhattan let Jennifer Lopez’s rom-com talents sparkle
By Caroline Siede August 3, 2018 | 11:00am
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Japan's own Lady Bird and a taut Korean thriller wrap up our coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival
By Katie Rife August 2, 2018 | 10:30pm
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Chicago, grab your board and roll into Skate Kitchen early and for free
By Katie Rife August 2, 2018 | 5:00pm
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HBO expands the world of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects but keeps its dramatic core intact
By Brian Tallerico August 1, 2018 | 11:00am
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Anti-colonialist heroes ride into the sunset at the Fantasia Film Festival
By Katie Rife July 30, 2018 | 8:50pm
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On Mission: Impossible, Edge Of Tomorrow, and the morbid star power of Tom Cruise
By A.A. Dowd July 30, 2018 | 4:00pm
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When is Ethan Hawke going to get his own John Wick?
By Alex McLevy July 30, 2018 | 11:00am
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What makes it a special effect?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 28, 2018 | 4:00pm
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How is Mission: Impossible still this good?
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 27, 2018 | 4:45pm
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How did a great Alan Moore comic become a lousy Johnny Depp mystery?
By Tom Breihan July 27, 2018 | 11:00am
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The 50 greatest special effects movies of all time
By The A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Katie Rife, Alex McLevy, Mike D'Angelo, Jesse Hassenger, Erik Adams, Clayton Purdom, Maggie Donahue July 26, 2018 | 11:00am
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Christopher McQuarrie on the perils of practical action and Henry Cavill’s pesky mustache
By Randall Colburn July 25, 2018 | 11:00am
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Sam Elliott kills Hitler, and then Bigfoot, in our second dispatch from the Fantasia Film Festival
By Katie Rife July 23, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Not even Denzel can save the bland Equalizer 2 from itself
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 20, 2018 | 8:00pm
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"Here we go again" indeed: Our critics see more jukebox tackiness in the Mamma Mia! sequel
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 20, 2018 | 6:00pm
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You can dance, you can jive, you can love Mamma Mia! without feeling embarrassed
By Caroline Siede July 20, 2018 | 11:00am
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Blindspotting’s Rafael Casal talks Oakland, Hamilton, and his pal Daveed Diggs
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 19, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Joe Dante, Keith David, and Jello Biafra kick off our coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival
By Katie Rife July 18, 2018 | 6:30pm
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The Jaws adaptation cut the mafia and sex subplots—and made movie history
By Ryan Vlastelica July 17, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Weekend Box Office: The Rock misses that big jump after all
By A.A. Dowd July 16, 2018 | 6:46pm
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Ant-Man And The Wasp’s mid-credits stinger is the best possible use of Marvel's long-running tactic
By Alex McLevy July 16, 2018 | 11:00am
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A look at Casino through the eyes of Ace Rothstein
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 14, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Jack Black and Jonah Hill on getting the chance to work with Gus Van Sant
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 13, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Even with a much bigger building, Skyscraper falls way short of Die Hard
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 13, 2018 | 4:30pm
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The modern era of the superhero movie begins in earnest with X-Men
By Tom Breihan July 13, 2018 | 11:00am
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Gus Van Sant on how Robin Williams helped bring Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot to the screen
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 12, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Ant-Man And The Wasp’s Peyton Reed on working with Marvel and that Fantastic Four film he never made
By Alex McLevy July 12, 2018 | 11:00am
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Non-actor Paula Niedert on being the odd woman out in the Elliott family
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 11, 2018 | 7:30pm
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From Raiders to Blade Runner: Simon Pegg and Vaughn Stein on their all-time favorite cinematic deaths
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 10, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Gus Van Sant, Jonah Hill, and Jack Black reveal their all-time favorite movies
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 10, 2018 | 4:30pm
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R.I.P. 1950s movie idol Tab Hunter
By Gwen Ihnat July 9, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Weekend Box Office: America celebrates independence with funny superheroes
By A.A. Dowd July 9, 2018 | 5:36pm
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Nick Offerman loves harnessing his dulcet tones for voice work
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 6, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Sorry To Bother You director Boots Riley on the genius of Armie Hammer
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 6, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Before palling around with Ant-Man and the Wasp, Peyton Reed was Down With Love
By Caroline Siede July 6, 2018 | 11:00am
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R.I.P. Claude Lanzmann, director of Shoah
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 5, 2018 | 8:31pm
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Nick Offerman talks White Fang and his love for Jack London
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 5, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Ant-Man, The Wasp, and Ethan Hunt are back in action this sequel-heavy July
By The A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Katie Rife, Sean O'Neal, Clayton Purdom July 5, 2018 | 11:00am
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Ant-Man And The Wasp is a fun (but inessential) entry in the MCU
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 3, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Boots Riley and the cast of Sorry To Bother You on the joys of filming in Oakland
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 2, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Our scary-good favorites from this year’s Cinepocalypse genre film festival
By Alex McLevy July 2, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Josh Brolin, Jody Hill, and Danny McBride talk hunting and The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin July 2, 2018 | 4:30pm
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MMA clearly didn’t prepare Gina Carano to play a post-apocalyptic bounty hunter
By Alex McLevy July 2, 2018 | 3:00pm
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The comedy of The Shining and other tales from the dark side
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 30, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Leave No Trace proves that Winter’s Bone was no fluke
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 29, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Kulap Vilaysack talks about her parents’ home country of Laos
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 29, 2018 | 3:30pm
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Mystery Men clumsily spoofed superhero movies before the genre even really took flight
By Tom Breihan June 29, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Did Sicario really need a sequel?
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 28, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Lifelong friends Danny McBride and Jody Hill put their relationship to the test
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 28, 2018 | 4:30pm
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The best films of 2018 so far
By The A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Katie Rife, Mike D'Angelo, Jesse Hassenger, Gwen Ihnat June 28, 2018 | 11:00am
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The director of Terminal on achieving the look of the film
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 26, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Paul Rudd on the allure of portraying a real-life spy
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 22, 2018 | 5:30pm
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In a brawl among Simon Pegg’s Three Flavours Cornetto leads, of course Nicholas Angel comes out on top
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 22, 2018 | 3:30pm
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25 years ago, Sleepless In Seattle found the romantic hiding in the cynic
By Caroline Siede June 22, 2018 | 11:00am
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Is the new Jurassic Park movie dumb fun or just dumb?
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 21, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Director Ben Lewin brought his love of history to The Catcher Was A Spy
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 21, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Blacula blew some fresh air into a musty genre crypt
By A.A. Dowd June 15, 2018 | 8:45pm
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Blade paved the way for the Marvel blockbusters of the new millennium
By Tom Breihan June 15, 2018 | 11:00am
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Superhero set-pieces don’t come much better than the ones in Incredibles 2
By Caitlin PenzeyMoog, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2018 | 11:00pm
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The Mack remains one of blaxploitation’s most artistically ambitious films
By Alex McLevy June 12, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The best thing about Ocean's 8 is the women on the screen
By The A.V. Club, Gwen Ihnat, Danette Chavez June 12, 2018 | 11:00am
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The original Super Fly is more than a blaxploitation time capsule with a killer soundtrack
By Kyle Ryan June 11, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Director Ari Aster tells you everything we can't about Hereditary
By Katie Rife June 11, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Is Hereditary as scary as they say?
By Caitlin PenzeyMoog, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 8, 2018 | 9:20pm
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Don’t Look Now’s ending still shocks, even if its famous sex scene doesn’t
By A.A. Dowd June 8, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The director and cast of Hereditary play “What’s Scarier?”
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 8, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Breakfast At Tiffany’s is so much more than a fashionable proto-Sex And The City
By Caroline Siede June 8, 2018 | 11:00am
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Despite a game cast, Ocean's 8 lacks the style and substance of its predecessors
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 7, 2018 | 11:11pm
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Pontypool puts a wicked intellectual twist on a horror trope
By Alex McLevy June 7, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Simon Pegg on what drew him toward a darker role in Terminal
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 7, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Nick Offerman talks Hearts Beat Loud and Kiersey Clemons’ amazing voice
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 7, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Reality turns into nightmare in the underappreciated horror classic Jacob’s Ladder
By Clayton Purdom June 6, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The team behind Hereditary says making the film was “therapeutic”—even if watching it won’t be
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 6, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Yeardley Smith and the cast of All Square aren’t sure whether Trump will last the full term
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 6, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Self-realization before sunrise: 18 movies about coming of age in under 24 hours
By The A.V. Club, A.A. Dowd, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez, Gwen Ihnat, William Hughes June 6, 2018 | 11:00am
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The unclassifiable Kill List is an unsettling odyssey to the dark side
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2018 | 7:00pm
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John Cusack is the worst planet-destroying AI robot in history
By Alex McLevy June 4, 2018 | 11:00am
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Chow Yun-fat rose to stardom as a scene-stealing rogue in an early John Woo classic
By Katie Rife June 1, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Haifaa al-Mansour hopes to inspire women with the story of Mary Shelley
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 1, 2018 | 6:30pm
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American Animals director Bart Layton talks making the jump from documentary film
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 1, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Can marijuana help treat cancer? The team behind Weed The People thinks so
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 31, 2018 | 8:30pm
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You don't get a bead on Drug War's snitch until the electrifying final shootout
By Clayton Purdom May 31, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The cast of American Animals has some thoughts on social media addiction
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 31, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Ocean’s 8, an Incredible family, and a whole Jurassic World of dinosaurs invade theaters this June
By A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Sean O'Neal, Katie Rife, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy May 31, 2018 | 11:00am
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Barbara Stanwyck is a grifter who swipes hearts in The Lady Eve
By Gwen Ihnat May 30, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The director and stars of American Animals talk the challenges of portraying real people on film
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 30, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Director Susanna White brought her love of Westerns to Woman Walks Ahead
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 30, 2018 | 3:00pm
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In Out Of Sight, Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney made a perfect couple on opposite sides of the law
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Director Susanna White recreated Sitting Bull's cabin for the new biopic, Woman Walks Ahead
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 29, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Solo scores the softest debut for a Star Wars movie in more than a dozen years
By A.A. Dowd May 29, 2018 | 5:53pm
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Space Jam vs. He Got Game: Baron Davis gushes over his favorite basketball movies
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 28, 2018 | 3:15pm
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Somewhere in the Super Mario Bros.
movie is a vision
that’s weird enough to work
By Matt Gerardi May 28, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Solo provides the easy fan service that The Last Jedi daringly denied us
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 25, 2018 | 8:35pm
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What you may want spoiled about Solo's big reveal if you're a typical adult
By Sean O'Neal May 25, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Why even Deadpool 2 seems to think its creator sucks
By Alex McLevy May 25, 2018 | 5:19pm
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Will Smith’s lone rom-com muddled its message about pickup artists and romance
By Caroline Siede May 25, 2018 | 11:00am
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Mary Shelley's Haifaa Al-Mansour isn't sweating the title of "first female Saudi film director"
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 24, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas captured the fading myth of the rebel writer
By Sean O'Neal May 24, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Han Severals: 16-plus characters who smuggled inspiration from Han Solo
By The A.V. Club, Danette Chavez, Alex McLevy, Sam Barsanti, Gwen Ihnat, William Hughes, Clayton Purdom, Matt Gerardi May 23, 2018 | 11:00am
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Deadpool 2 clowns on death and finality in the superhero genre
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 21, 2018 | 9:15pm
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From Fargo to Napoleon Dynamite: Haifaa Al-Mansour picks the 5 films that influenced her the most
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 21, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Investigating classic gangster movies around the world
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 19, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Simon Pegg and Vaughn Stein’s new film Terminal draws influence from Blade Runner and 1984
By Baraka Kaseko, Leonardo Adrian Garcia May 18, 2018 | 8:30pm
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After Face/Off, John Woo and Nicolas Cage reunited for an earnest war movie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 18, 2018 | 7:45pm
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The best movies of Cannes 2018, plus a serious Palme D’Or threat at the end of the festival
By A.A. Dowd May 18, 2018 | 6:35pm
