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1.5/4
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... a corporate conglomerate on cinematic wheels.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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3.5/4
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Intimate yet vast...
Posted Jan 18, 2026
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2.5/4
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And Then There Were None
(1945)
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Josh Larsen
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... a mildly amusing Agatha Christie adaptation.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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2/4
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Predators
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... third-degree, self-righteous voyeurism.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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3/4
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The Secret Agent
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... a sumptuously unsettling experience.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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3/4
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Pandora has been populated by something unexpected and extraordinary: compelling characters.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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2.5/4
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Metropolitan
(1990)
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Josh Larsen
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Stillman’s writing is self-aware in ways his characters are not.
Posted Dec 28, 2025
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3/4
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Arco
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... a sci-fi fantasy that’s part Fantastic Planet and part Miyazaki.
Posted Dec 27, 2025
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3.5/4
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Boys Go to Jupiter
(2024)
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Josh Larsen
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A kinder, gentler South Park of sorts...
Posted Dec 25, 2025
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3/4
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... shows off in a way that begins to feel needy.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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3/4
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Byrne's tiny touches that reverberate with recognizability.
Posted Dec 13, 2025
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2.5/4
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... like watching the problems of a pillow.
Posted Dec 09, 2025
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3.5/4
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... lures us in with a swooning romance, then lowers the hammer.
Posted Dec 09, 2025
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3.5/4
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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The filmmaking is hypnotic...
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Ugly Stepsister
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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The Substance by way of the Brothers Grimm.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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3/4
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Seyfried has the big eyes of belief and brings a level of tremulous conviction to match.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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3.5/4
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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The movie’s religious curiosity is its hallmark.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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3/4
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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A great conceit meets adequate execution...
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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1/4
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... takes the whiff of an idea and fails to creatively or coherently imagine it in any way.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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3.5/4
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Time takes on a different tenor in Train Dreams . . .
Posted Nov 22, 2025
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3/4
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Misericordia
(2024)
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Josh Larsen
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The cinematography by Claire Mathon is stunning...
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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3/4
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The Perfect Neighbor
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... a close-up portrait of the irrational xenophobia that has gripped much of American society and politics in recent years.
Posted Nov 20, 2025
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3/4
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Zodiac Killer Project
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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. . . a provocative, meta consideration of the true-crime documentary form.
Posted Nov 19, 2025
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2/4
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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What wins out: the wit or the wonkiness?
Posted Nov 15, 2025
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3.5/4
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The Mastermind
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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O'Connor's J.B. registers as a particularly American fraud.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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2.5/4
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Feels like Yorgos Lanthimos' final verdict on humanity.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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2.5/4
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Lawrence gives a gripping performance that’s more about the inhabiting of a body than the delivery of words.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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3/4
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Morvern Callar
(2002)
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Josh Larsen
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... bleak, but to a purpose.
Posted Nov 08, 2025
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1.5/4
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Ratcatcher
(1999)
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Josh Larsen
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... there is a gravitation toward the repugnant that goes beyond description and toward a place of awed fascination.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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3.5/4
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It Was Just an Accident
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... carries serious moral weight.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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3.5/4
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... where del Toro’s gothic instincts flower into full-blown Romanticism.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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2/4
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Hocus Pocus
(1993)
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Josh Larsen
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I have to admire anything that tries to play in the same sandbox as Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas...
Posted Nov 01, 2025
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3/4
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Hedda
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... pushes the title character toward something demon-possessed, if not demonic.
Posted Nov 01, 2025
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3.5/4
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Reds
(1981)
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Josh Larsen
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Warren Beatty cracked the biopic code...
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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2.5/4
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Another Richard Linklater talkfest featuring his favorite talker...
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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2.5/4
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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The score by Volker Bertelmann has moments that are the audio equivalent of your stomach dropping out.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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3/4
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The Loveless
(1983)
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Josh Larsen
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... curious about underbelly imagery—and the psychic pull such things can have on us.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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3/4
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Out of Africa
(1985)
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Josh Larsen
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It’s no coincidence that the movie came out two years after clothing retailer The Gap bought Banana Republic...
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Way We Were
(1973)
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Josh Larsen
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... fascinating as a study of Streisand and Redford's onscreen personas.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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3.5/4
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew
(1964)
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Josh Larsen
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There is a purity ... that gives it a transcendental aura.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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3.5/4
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La Ricotta
(1963)
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Josh Larsen
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... about modernity’s failure and inability to take the crucifixion seriously—to say nothing of Jesus’ words about caring for the poor.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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4/4
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... understands the urgency of this moment.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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3/4
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A River Runs Through It
(1992)
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Josh Larsen
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Robert Redford hovers like a ghost over A River Runs Through It...
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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3/4
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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... won’t work for everyone, but hearts of a certain shape may treasure it.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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2/4
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(1969)
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Josh Larsen
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... misguidedly plays like a tragic romance.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Echo Valley
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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A whiff of Hitchcock lingers around Echo Valley...
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Pesky penshioners and mercy killings?
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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3.5/4
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The History of Sound
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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...musically meditates on the impermanence of love and life.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Roses
(2025)
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Josh Larsen
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Colman and Cumberbatch leave dazzling trails of repartee as they zip along.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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3/4
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Local Hero
(1983)
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Josh Larsen
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Just the right dose of daffy...
Posted Sep 01, 2025
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