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3/5
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Catherine Springer
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It is a fun game of cat-and-mouse, as one spy tries to root out another, but the film gets too bogged down in its own cleverness, as the audience loses track of all the games, making the film more of a mental mush than a stylish sizzle.
Posted Apr 03, 2025
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5/5
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The Zone of Interest
(2023)
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Catherine Springer
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It is just that reflection of indifference, that casual acceptance of the setting and the situation that makes...[it] so ultimately horrifying—and should serve as a vivid commentary on humanity’s capacity for willful ignorance and complicity in evil.
Posted Feb 03, 2024
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1/5
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Ferrari
(2023)
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Catherine Springer
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A boring character drama about an uninteresting person...and a story more about his love life than anything having to do with cars. And when you do get racing sequences, the film gets even lazier, as the CGI feels cheap and borderline comedic.
Posted Feb 03, 2024
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3/5
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BlackBerry
(2023)
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Catherine Springer
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It is in Glenn Howerton’s over-the-top portrayal of Jim that BlackBerry soars above everything else you’ve seen in this genre, and catapults BlackBerry into the satirical stratosphere.
Posted Feb 03, 2024
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3/5
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Asteroid City
(2023)
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Catherine Springer
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It sometimes feels as if Anderson is trying to tackle a little too much and wade a little too deep, but Asteroid City still manages to find its footing, if not its focus.
Posted Feb 03, 2024
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3/5
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Saltburn
(2023)
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Catherine Springer
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It was impossible to shake the comparison to Ripley with Saltburn while I was watching it, but I still tried to revel in Fennell’s audaciousness, coupled with a truly game and committed performance from Keoghan.
Posted Feb 03, 2024
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4/5
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
(2023)
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Catherine Springer
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If there’s any way to go out, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny finds the best way to say goodbye–by honoring the past, capturing the spirit of the franchise and doing exactly what Indiana Jones does best: going off into history in style.
Posted Jun 29, 2023
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4/5
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Thirteen Lives
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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The story itself is heart-pounding (and heart-tugging) enough, so Howard allows the actors to stay subtle and nearly fade into the background, never pulling focus for the audience from the dire circumstances of the situation.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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3/5
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The Good Nurse
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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It is the...journey that Amy and the audience travel towards...the truth about Charlie that make The Good Nurse a riveting watch, greatly aided by two mammoth performances at its center that make the entire upsetting experience well worth it.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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5/5
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All Quiet on the Western Front
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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A gorgeous, powerful and haunting treatise on the evils, stupidity and pointlessness of war, and is a must see for anyone who loves the craft of filmmaking and can endure another reminder of humanity’s most tragic flaw.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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5/5
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She Said
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are brilliant...each one navigating varying levels of doubt and tenacity, portraying real, three-dimensional people who are more than their job, but are tireless and dedicated representatives of their profession.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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3/5
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The Fabelmans
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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The final scene of the film...contains a cameo that makes the previous two and a half hours worthwhile—and makes you long for what else could have been if Spielberg had just chosen to tell more of that story.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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5/5
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Women Talking
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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All at once celebrating the most civilized aspects of our species while lamenting the most savage, Women Talking is a swirling cacophony of ideas and philosophies, showcasing...what sets us apart from every other species: the ability to reason.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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5/5
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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The screenplay is inventive and fresh, spoofing the bio-pic genre, taking a page from Weird Al himself, in ways that are not only clever and unpredictable, but side-splittingly hilarious and, yes, really really weird.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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2/5
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Empire of Light
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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The main problem with Mendes’s ambitious script is he is trying to wedge romantic, social, political and psychological dramas all into the same story and is not able to serve any single one the proper time or respect.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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4/5
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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Glass Onion is a charming, funny, and impeccably made film that is as breezy as it is clever. The script is the star of the show, with delectable lines worthy of a second (or third) viewing, and a perfectly balanced cast that delivers with gusto.
Posted Jan 11, 2023
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5/5
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The Banshees of Inisherin
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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What seems like a very simple premise becomes a labyrinth of emotions and a treatise on human relations in the masterful hands and words of McDonagh...in this contained, beautiful and heartbreakingly existential tale of innocence lost.
Posted Oct 22, 2022
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3/5
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Bros
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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Sadly, Bros is a film that falls way short of its potential, largely due to its own unattainable aspirations and overly inflated desire to jump the queer genre forward by so many steps, it overshoots the mark wildly.
Posted Oct 14, 2022
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B
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Windfall
(2022)
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Catherine Springer
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There's enough in the experience to make it worth your while, especially if you love Hitchcock homages, and especially if you love scores that don't just sit in the background and try to disappear.
Posted Mar 18, 2022
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3/5
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Jungle Cruise
(2021)
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Catherine Springer
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Johnson and Blunt do have great chemistry together, but it's their individual affability that makes everything work so well.
Posted Jul 29, 2021
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3/5
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A Most Violent Year
(2014)
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Catherine Springer
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Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain are absolutely transcendent as the couple at the heart here, trying to hold together their company, which may or may not be crooked.
Posted Jul 26, 2021
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3/5
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A Civil Action
(1998)
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Catherine Springer
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A wonderful ride but an ultimately unfulfilling destination.
Posted Jul 26, 2021
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3/5
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A Dangerous Method
(2011)
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Catherine Springer
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It's talky and conceptual and intellectual and extremely dry. But, if you pay attention, it is also extremely erotic and emotional.
Posted Jul 26, 2021
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4/5
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A Monster Calls
(2016)
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Catherine Springer
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The effects here don't take you out of the story, they make you even more invested.
Posted Jul 26, 2021
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3/5
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A Beautiful Mind
(2001)
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Catherine Springer
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Nash's character is perfectly suited to Crowe's ability to charm and confuse at the same moment.
Posted Jul 26, 2021
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3/5
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20th Century Women
(2016)
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Catherine Springer
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Just like the characters themselves, the script roams free, filling in all the swirling colors of the world and expressing a time and place that might have just been the last when human connection was tactile and fearless.
Posted Jul 25, 2021
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4/5
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22 July
(2018)
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Catherine Springer
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22 July is an engrossing, meticulously made and emotional journey.
Posted Jul 25, 2021
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5/5
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1917
(2019)
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Catherine Springer
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In addition to Deakins, production designer Dennis Gassner and composer Thomas Newman also add layers of bravura artistry to create an experience that will leave you breathless, heart pounding and absolutely emotionally wrecked by the end.
Posted Jul 25, 2021
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4/5
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12 Years a Slave
(2013)
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Catherine Springer
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It is a story that demanded to be told, demanded to be heard and it is absolutely perfectly done and deserves to be seen.
Posted Jul 25, 2021
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4/5
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(500) Days of Summer
(2009)
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Catherine Springer
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It has no great story to tell, other than recounting the path of a relationship from start to end and the various emotions that occur within it-and it is terrific every step of the way. And utterly relatable.
Posted Jul 25, 2021
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Babel
(2006)
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Catherine Springer
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Unlike Crash, where the characters felt like cartoons and stereotypes, these characters are fleshed out and real, and the performances are first-rate, with a performance from Brad Pitt that is his most mature work.
Posted Jul 11, 2021
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3/5
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Ammonite
(2020)
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Catherine Springer
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It's impossible to not compare this film to last year's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and, unfortunately, Ammonite falls short, despite a deeply resonant performance by Kate Winslet.
Posted Jul 11, 2021
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5/5
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Parasite
(2019)
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Catherine Springer
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Parasite finds a way to be visually stunning, thematically resonant, horrifyingly tragic and fantastically gripping while fooling the audience into thinking they are having the time of their life.
Posted Jun 26, 2021
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5/5
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The Father
(2020)
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Catherine Springer
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Zeller has delivered not only the best film adaptation of the season, but one of the most effective, moving and, dare I say, cinematic films of the year.
Posted Jun 26, 2021
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4/5
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A Quiet Place Part II
(2021)
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Catherine Springer
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A Quiet Place Part II is a rollicking good time... it's all part of an exceedingly well-constructed mild horror film... with thrills galore. If this doesn't get people back to the movies, I'm not sure what will.
Posted Jun 26, 2021
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3/5
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In the Heights
(2021)
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Catherine Springer
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In the Heights is a far from perfect film, a wasted opportunity to have achieved something truly stunning. But still, if you love musicals, none of this will really matter.
Posted Jun 26, 2021
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