Nov 23
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Note: The writer of this review watched The Croods: A New Age on a digital screener from home. Before making the…
Nov 20
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There’s no reason why a movie that features Jackie Chan, lion attacks, and machete-wielding henchmen on Jet Skis…
Nov 20
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“Life can change in the blink of an eye” is one of those clichés that sounds more hyperbolic than it really is.…
Nov 19
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Mix The Family Stone with While You Were Sleeping, add a touch of My Best Friend’s Wedding, and give the whole thing…
Nov 18
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Sound Of Metal is nothing without its sound design. It’s a story about music and deafness—both auditory…
Nov 18
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All Chris Columbus wants for Christmas is mayhem. He may not fully admit it, insulating his destructive impulses…
Nov 18
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Academic consensus credits Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle as the originator of the “great man theory” of…
Nov 17
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Note: The writer of this review watched The Last Vermeer from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any…
Nov 17
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the show not the movie, makes two appearances in Josh Boone’s long-delayed superhero…
Nov 16
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In Run, helicopter parenting reaches a whole new level of unhinged. Likely taking cues from the real-life Munchausen-…
Nov 11
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Note: The writer of this review watched The Climb on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…
Nov 11
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Note: The writer of this review watched Dreamland on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…
Nov 11
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Note: The writer of this review watched Ammonite on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…
Nov 11
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Note: The writer of this review watched Wolfwalkers from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other…
Nov 10
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Greta Thunberg has been a well-known and controversial public figure for about two years now, which makes the images…
Nov 10
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Almost every interview subject in Werner Herzog’s latest documentary gets introduced with a prolonged, silent…
Nov 10
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Note: The writer of this review watched Hillbilly Elegy from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other…
Nov 9
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Note: The writer of this review watched Freaky from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in…
Nov 6
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It’s the spring of 1940. The alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) has come to a secluded ranch…
Nov 5
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It begins with the wind—a reedy, high-pitched whistle cold enough to make your bones hurt. Then the music comes in,…