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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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I found the film not only predictable and boring, but also infuriating, because it celebrates the worst excesses and narcissism of armchair American leftists, doing so at the expense of believable characters and credible situations.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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The best compliment I can pay this movie is that, although it has a running time of two and a half hours, which is de rigueur for Oscar-bait films these days, I was never bored.
Posted Jan 02, 2026
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Ma Mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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The movie belongs to Leïla Bekhti, a young actress who truly captures the essence of this kind of over-the-top but caring matriarch, playing off her histrionics against her genuine devotion.
Posted Dec 06, 2025
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Eleanor the Great
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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By the end, it pulls off the emotional catharsis that is building and ties it all together. You will forget the clunky parts, or more likely, you won’t be bothered by them.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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Predictably, Curtis steals the show, as she did in the 2003 film, and the scenes where she is reunited with Jake (Chad Michael Murray), the heartthrob who fell for her in the first movie, are the highlight.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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Karaoke
(2022)
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Hannah Brown
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A 2022 dramedy that features wonderful performances from a trio of Israel’s best actors.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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I can remember dozens of details of specific shots, but I also recall wishing frequently that it would end already, and it’s only 101 minutes long.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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Monsieur Aznavour
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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The more you love French music of his peak era -- the ‘50s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s -- the more you’ll enjoy this movie. But his early life was unusual enough that the movie will be fun for those who don’t know his work.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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The Amateur
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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Unfortunately, the spectacular scenes are all in the trailer... The rest is kind of meh, even with Laurence Fishburne, teaching the computer scientist how to become an assassin.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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Fans of the classic movie, which is celebrating 50 years since its release this summer, won’t want to miss this one.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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Ellipsis
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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It is clever and each new chapter manages to upend much of what you thought was true about each of the characters.
Posted Jul 18, 2025
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Shark Whisperer
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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Features amazing underwater photography and gets across its message that shark attacks are rare and that sharks are a key part of marine life.
Posted Jul 07, 2025
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Ocean with David Attenborough
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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Attenborough and his collaborators focus on how [the oceans] can be saved. His passion for the subject makes what could have been a preachy project into something fascinating.
Posted Jul 07, 2025
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Fountain of Youth
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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Unfortunately, in this derivative muddle directed by Guy Ritchie, known for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and other British crime films, neither the journey nor the prize are important.
Posted Jun 04, 2025
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Bad Shabbos
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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Will it offend some people? Undoubtedly. But it will make many more laugh, and a lot of people will see themselves and their family members in the characters.
Posted May 27, 2025
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The Three Musketeers: Part I - D'Artagnan
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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The movie is enjoyable, filled with swashbuckling and banter, and concentrates on presenting the 1600s with realistic grit and filth, and on the intrigues of the palace and the clergy in all their double-crossing detail.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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Disney's Snow White
(2025)
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Hannah Brown
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This is a movie about virtue and any fun is incidental.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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The Brutalist
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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I don’t know whether polygraphs really work but if they do, I would bet many people who claim to have enjoyed this movie would fail such a test.
Posted Feb 24, 2025
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80 for Brady
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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80 for Brady is a fun movie whether you love football or are only aware of the Superbowl when you notice articles about the best commercials broadcast during the game.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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For the most part, it captures the spirit of Dylan and his cronies evocatively. The more it focuses on the details of the music and the scene, the better it is.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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Highway 65
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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All the elements in the movie, including a haunting score by Pierre Oberkampf and evocative cinematography by Amit Yasur, come together to bring the story to life.
Posted Feb 08, 2025
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September 5
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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This movie is like a snapshot of the moment before the media lost its moral compass.
Posted Feb 08, 2025
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The Property
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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What this charming movie makes clear is that so often, when people look deeply into their past, the reality is much more complicated than they remember.
Posted Jan 22, 2025
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Saturday Night
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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I’m not sure what people who don’t know anything about the original SNL will make of this movie, but for aficionados of the show, it’s an entertaining look at the show’s origin story.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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A Real Pain
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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By the end of this moving film, which seems to come too quickly -- as opposed to most movies, which I often wish were shorter -- you will feel as if you know Benji and David.
Posted Jan 02, 2025
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Mary
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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During most of the film, Mary looks like a model in a perfume commercial, mixed with one of those catalogs that sell expensive earthenware products and organically made fabrics so you can simplify your life.
Posted Dec 16, 2024
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Emilia Pérez
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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Although the film is billed as a musical comedy, there weren’t too many other laughs in an often visually arresting but mostly uninvolving story.
Posted Nov 15, 2024
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Armageddon Time
(2022)
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Hannah Brown
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Hopkins gives a very winning performance as the grandfather we all wish we had, in this sometimes meandering film.
Posted Nov 15, 2024
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Megalopolis
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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While Megalopolis might sound interesting on paper, everything in it feels flat and forced.
Posted Oct 11, 2024
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Come Closer
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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A riveting story of love and loss, a movie that draws you in during the first moments and which will hold your attention and emotion until the final frame.
Posted Sep 21, 2024
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The Teachers' Lounge
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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The film is impeccably acted and has some suspense built into its plot. Ultimately, though, it’s a frustrating film that may make you grateful if you are no longer involved in the school system.
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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Moving On
(2022)
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Hannah Brown
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It’s fun to see both women bickering away again.
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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Art College 1994
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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For most, this beautiful-looking talkfest will be too long to hold their interest. It could easily stand to be half an hour shorter. But art students will enjoy the visuals and the debates.
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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She Said
(2022)
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Hannah Brown
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You know the end going in. That said, it’s watchable, because it’s interesting to see the behind-the-scenes of how they managed to take down one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry.
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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The Other Woman
(2014)
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Hannah Brown
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It’s done as well as this story can be, and Don Johnson of Miami Vice is perfectly cast as Diaz’s father.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Kissufim
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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An entertaining, coming-of-age story about a group of young people who come to work on the kibbutz as part of their army service.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Thelma
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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It’s a touching and entertaining story about what getting old is like for many people, with real laughs and moving moments.
Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Israel Swings for Gold
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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The movie is about much more than sports, as it details the heart and soul that the Israelis brought to the Olympic Village.
Posted Aug 12, 2024
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Last Summer
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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Until the last moments of Last Summer, Breillat takes the audience on a conflict-filled journey that mirrors that of the heroine, who vacillates between sympathetic and supremely unlikable from one moment to the next.
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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The Monk and the Gun
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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A political satire with a deep meaning, but the spiritual message behind the story sneaks up on you, or rather, you understand and embrace it gradually, just the way the Bhutanese do the electoral process.
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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Tatami
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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Tatami tells a gripping, suspenseful story that could come from today’s headlines.
Posted Aug 02, 2024
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Reality
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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It’s hard for most of us to get inside the heads of people like this, but Reality, and particularly Sweeney’s performance, illuminates this mind-set.
Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Weekend Rebels
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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I hate the clichéd expression heart-warming, but this dramatized version of their life is such a pitch-perfect depiction of the realities of life with someone on the autism spectrum that it really touched me.
Posted Jul 03, 2024
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About Dry Grasses
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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The plot threads come together and then unravel as the story moves along slowly through its 197-minute running time... This movie wouldn’t have been harmed by a little script cutting, which might have sharpened the characters and made them more vivid.
Posted Jun 27, 2024
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Ezra
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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[Ezra] gives a nuanced, realistic, and heartrending look at a boy with autism and his family, which tells truths that Rain Man glossed over.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Treasure
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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A moving and often surprisingly funny character-driven story of intergenerational Holocaust trauma.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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The Commandant's Shadow
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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As is so often the case, the truth is far more interesting, and more layered, than its fictional depiction.
Posted Jun 10, 2024
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Unfrosted
(2024)
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Hannah Brown
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It’s silly -- and, if you’re in the right mood, it’s fun. It reminds us that much of the comedy on Seinfeld was pretty goofy, which is part of why people loved it.
Posted May 15, 2024
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Kiss Me Kosher
(2020)
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Hannah Brown
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A terrific and lively cast does great work in both the serious and comic scenes and Kiss Me Kosher is an affectionate and knowing portrait of the diversity of Israeli life.
Posted Apr 26, 2024
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Irena's Vow
(2023)
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Hannah Brown
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Irena’s Vow gives us a look into the life of the kind of person we all hope we would be if we found ourselves tested like this.
Posted Apr 19, 2024
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