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4.5/5
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All That's Left of You
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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...the script and performances have an absorbing heft and complexity that lift it far above exposition or didacticism.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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4/5
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Rather than depicting the life of Ann Lee (1736-1784) in standard biopic format, director-cowriter Mona Fastvold (The World to Come) has herself created something of a “testament,” immersed in the fervor of its characters.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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5/5
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My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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My Undesirable Friends is an indelible record of what 21st-century autocracy and resistance look like. I think most stateside viewers will also recognize it as a warning.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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3.5/5
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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The filmmaking is so busily inventive and entertaining that we may not immediately register the tension at the heart of No Other Choice. Rarely has a story felt so contemporary and so retro at the same time.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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3.5/5
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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It takes great craftsmanship to tell the story of an ordinary life in a way that elevates it into a representative one, without falling prey to pretentiousness. Bentley displays that level of skill in this immersive, dreamlike work.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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4.5/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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The editing and production design are immersive, the dialogue has a triumphant comic snap, and Chalamet’s performance is fully committed.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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4/5
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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What [Wake Up Dead Man] does offer is superb old-school entertainment: a carnival ride of plot convolutions, witty lines and gleefully hammy performances with, at its core, a surprisingly compelling meditation on the real meaning of faith.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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4.5/5
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Hamnet serves as an all-too-timely reminder that the death of children was commonplace before modern medicine. Watson delivers a beautiful monologue that drives home just how familiar parents were forced to be with their worst fears.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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4/5
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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As sophisticated as it’s sentimental, the movie will send you out misty-eyed and thoughtful.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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4.5/5
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Hedda
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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DaCosta has adapted the source material with care, weaving in new characters and updated concerns while keeping the dialogue sharp and period-appropriate.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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3.5/5
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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A chilly, visually impeccable film with few likable characters, After the Hunt drags on longer than it needs to. But Guadagnino nails the academic atmosphere — the hushed voices, the unspoken disdain.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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4/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a beautifully realized gothic fever dream, worth seeing on the biggest screen you can. But its ultimate messaging panders to an audience that can’t tolerate ambiguity, yanking us back into 21st-century reality.
Posted Nov 19, 2025
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3/5
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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An artwork this rich in visual symbolism will find its fans, but for me, Die My Love was a suffocating vibe in search of a story.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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4/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Bugonia is most interesting when it explores how a shared vocabulary can bond people, even — or especially — when that vocabulary bears no relationship to reality.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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4.5/5
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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As a cautionary tale exploring an arguably plausible scenario, A House of Dynamite is terrifyingly effective. But any viewer who expects something different...will be disappointed and perhaps aggrieved.
Posted Oct 29, 2025
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4/5
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Fucktoys
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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The movie doesn’t treat sex or sex work as inherently degrading, and that could unsettle some viewers. But for those who like their indie movies genuinely independent, Sriram’s debut is a provocation with substance behind it.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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3/5
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Roofman
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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While the film’s first third might lead us to expect a vicious satire or a crowd-pleasing populist comedy, Roofman ends up being more of a tender, tepid love story.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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3.5/5
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Anemone
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Anemone ends up feeling like an aesthetically immaculate apologia for being a deadbeat dad. If you catch its vibe, there’s power here, and Ronan Day-Lewis shows clear promise as a filmmaker.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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4.5/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Anderson fills the whole screen with deftly orchestrated action in a real-feeling world, assisted by skilled production design. It’s an invigorating reminder that movie thrills don’t have to have the weightlessness of CGI or martial-arts wire work.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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3.5/5
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HIM
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Him isn’t subtle about its message that football is the all-American cult, recruiting promising young Black men to serve as fodder for its sacrificial rites. But it illustrates that message with such wild gusto that I found it hard to look away...
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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4/5
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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There’s no especially subtle or sophisticated messaging in this grueling little tale, but it grips us all the way to the bitter end of the road.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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2/5
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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While one can’t fault The Conjuring: Last Rites for trying a new direction, the scares it conjures are few and far between.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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Black Box Diaries
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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Black Box Diaries is a riveting effort to take back [Shiori Itô's] personhood.
Posted Sep 03, 2025
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2.5/5
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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...Honey Don't! is fine for a late-summer diversion, but it feels like a collection of quirky gestures in search of a point.
Posted Aug 27, 2025
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4/5
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Weapons
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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...Weapons is an impressive feat of narrative and technical ingenuity, like Go or Magnolia for the horror genre. And the excitement around it reflects how much cultural capital that genre has accumulated in the past decade.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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3.5/5
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Together
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Why do so many people crave and fear "becoming one" with a romantic partner? The movie gets plenty of shock value out of exploring the age-old question, but the credits roll right when it might have started to get really divisive — and interesting.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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4.5/5
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Sorry, Baby
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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The film's nonchronological narrative unfolds over several chapters, each with a title reminiscent of a "Friends" episode...The echo feels intentional, because this movie is often funny, albeit in a dryer, more Gen Z way than any network sitcom.
Posted Jul 30, 2025
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4/5
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Eddington
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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...Eddington is downright realistic in its portrayal of small-town politics and love triangles, building its narrative detail by telling detail.
Posted Jul 23, 2025
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Superman
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Without a doubt, Gunn's Superman returns to the sunnier, cornier tone of the 1978 Richard Donner film. Corenswet's Superman is almost comically good — he rescues kids, dogs, even unwary squirrels — and he isn't afraid to be uncool.
Posted Jul 16, 2025
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2.5/5
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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The thrills are still there, but the wonder is waning.
Posted Jul 09, 2025
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4/5
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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28 Years Later is more trippy than scary, and its disjointed story is clearly setting up a sequel (due out in January). But Boyle's sound and fury are immersive enough to send us out feeling genuinely shell-shocked.
Posted Jul 02, 2025
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3.5/5
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Materialists
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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If nothing else, Materialists reminds us that stories that acknowledge the role of social and economic contingencies in matchmaking can be romantic, too.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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3/5
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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If, however, you're feeling anti-tycoon at the moment, you may appreciate the stylistic brilliance of The Phoenician Scheme while finding it a bit of a con.
Posted Jun 11, 2025
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4/5
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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... Hawkins' larger-than-life presence contributes continual jolts of energy...
Posted Jun 04, 2025
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4/5
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Friendship
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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We may wonder whether Craig could ever attain the self-awareness needed to laugh with us, yet it's impossible to look away, perhaps because Robinson manages to embody every ounce of cringe that we resolutely repress in ourselves.
Posted May 28, 2025
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3/5
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Final Destination Bloodlines
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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The kernel of a more gripping drama about family gaslighting lies hidden within Final Destination: Bloodlines. But the subtext remains merely subtext, as directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein are less interested in exploring their characters...
Posted May 21, 2025
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3/5
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Clown in a Cornfield
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Clown in a Cornfield isn't especially scary, despite some tense and well-shot passages, and the characters are familiar types. Still, the kills are semi-inventive as slasher movies go, and the screenplay has at least one genuine twist.
Posted May 21, 2025
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3.5/5
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Summer of 69
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Summer of 69 is nothing if not scattershot. Brilliantly absurdist bits and clever throwaway lines...coexist with scenes that play like sketch comedy first drafts.
Posted May 14, 2025
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4/5
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The Surfer
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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This weird little movie is doing more than riding the Cage wave. But if you're looking for fresh meme material, you'll find that here, too.
Posted May 07, 2025
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4.5/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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If you expect something austere and auteurish from Sinners, you'll be surprised to find it has all the thrills of a good popcorn movie. But its implications are more daring and expansive.
Posted Apr 23, 2025
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4.5/5
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Misericordia
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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Misericordia may not be as floridly outrageous as its glossier cousin, Saltburn, but its earthy realism and refusal to meet genre expectations are arguably more subversive.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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4/5
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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The screenplay...can be too on the nose, particularly in its handling of historical context...Overall, however, the filmmakers steer clear of the usual musical biopic hagiography by taking a deliberate and bracing distance from their subject.
Posted Apr 09, 2025
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4/5
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Sing Sing
(2023)
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Margot Harrison
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There's nothing corny or bleeding-heart about Sing Sing's promotion of theater as a healing force for the working-class man's soul...This movie makes a powerful case for the kind of programs that are currently on the federal chopping block.
Posted Apr 09, 2025
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2.5/5
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Plot points that seem obvious early on are treated as if they were major twists. Long, tiresome scenes showcase underdrawn characters who are clearly only there to be killed off later.
Posted Apr 02, 2025
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3.5/5
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Black Bag succeeds as old-school entertainment, a reminder that smart people deserve escapism, too. Just don't expect that fabled bag to yield anything deeper.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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4/5
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Margot Harrison
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Mickey 17 is a wild sci-fi yarn in the vein of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with breakneck pacing, a time-jumping narrative, and a Looney Tunes commitment to its premise.
Posted Mar 12, 2025
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4.5/5
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Ghostlight
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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Anyone who's ever found catharsis and community onstage will want to give these players a curtain call.
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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4/5
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I'm Still Here
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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Torres' performance is a masterpiece of tight-lipped nuance, the antithesis of melodrama.
Posted Feb 26, 2025
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4/5
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Your Monster
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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...Your Monster has one of the more memorable finales in recent memory, thanks to Barrera's riveting performance of an original musical number by the Lazours.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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4/5
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A Different Man
(2024)
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Margot Harrison
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...well worth seeing as a case study of how people sabotage themselves by confusing interior and exterior change, and a satire of a culture eager to create palatable, uplifting stories at the expense of thorny truths.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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