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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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[This] has the makings of a snug little franchise.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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Darkman
(1990)
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Ralph Novak
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A loud, sadistic, stupidly written, wretchedly acted film.
Posted Aug 23, 2025
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Eric Andersson
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In Schaffer’s delightful version, the flurry of double entendres, slapstick humor and surprise celebrity cameos remains; the cringey quips about race and disability are a thing of the past. It’s a tight 85-minute treat.
Posted Jul 30, 2025
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Superman
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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A dizzyingly wild, wildly imperfect movie with one radical flash of inspiration and a refreshingly different Superman.
Posted Jul 08, 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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Rebirth takes its own sweet time before it finally gets its story set up. Once that's accomplished, though, the movie is a happy thrill ride, a string of stupendous (and stupendously silly) scenes in which the mutants go after the castaways.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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Materialists
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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Materialists is a swipe-right experience — elusive but not inscrutable, as well as enjoyably, delicately playful.
Posted Jun 12, 2025
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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The big action scenes, when they finally arrive, really deliver, and then some.
Posted May 14, 2025
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Another Simple Favor
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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It's a good-enough film, a divertingly mindless jumble of murder, Italian tourism and fashion, most of it trotted out as a flamboyant design showcase for Lively.
Posted Apr 30, 2025
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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The costars complement each other nicely.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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You don't watch Mickey 17 — you experience it, you go through it.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Tommy McArdle
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When the Avengers do re-form in May 2026 for Avengers: Doomsday, Mackie is positioned to be the group's new leader, deservedly so.
Posted Feb 12, 2025
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Companion
(2025)
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Tom Gliatto
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Companion never stops springing surprises on you, but the greatest thrill is watching Thatcher’s carefully evolving performance as she charts Iris’ dawning, violent disillusionment, as well as Iris' thirst for her own independence.
Posted Jan 31, 2025
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The Last Showgirl
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Anderson acts with such plain, dedicated honesty she could be the star of a documentary.
Posted Jan 13, 2025
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The Brutalist
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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The movie is its own rare, complete thing, sprawling and raw-boned.
Posted Jan 07, 2025
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Unknown — directed by James Mangold with a surface blandness not nearly as vivid as the folk scene in the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis — never makes you feel you’re watching history in the making, that times really are a-changin’.
Posted Jan 07, 2025
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Babygirl
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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It’s erotic and sensational and features Kidman at her best.
Posted Dec 24, 2024
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Mufasa: The Lion King
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Jenkins puts all this across with sensitivity and what feels like a gentle confidence.
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Maria
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Jolie, delicately thin with large, haunted eyes, gives a striking performance — luminous and diaphanous.
Posted Dec 11, 2024
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Moana 2
(2024)
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Tommy McArdle
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... Its sense of wonder for a beautifully rendered depiction of the ocean and its islands, as well as humor provided by Johnson and its supporting cast, make Moana's sequel just as worthy for families as the first film.
Posted Nov 26, 2024
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Wicked
(2024)
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Eric Andersson
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Grande, in the showier role as the perky, plucky Glinda, owns the movie with her hair flips and humorous hubris.
Posted Nov 19, 2024
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Emilia Pérez
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Gascón brings honest humor, physical heft and the occasional melodramatic flourish to the part. It’s a commanding performance.
Posted Nov 13, 2024
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Heretic
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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In the last third or so the movie sinks down into something murky, nasty and exploitative.
Posted Nov 07, 2024
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Conclave
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Conclave, a marvelously entertaining film about a papal election, is something of a miracle, an immaculately polished production that satisfies on just about every level.
Posted Oct 25, 2024
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Anora
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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A blend of tough, profane humor, feral intelligence and cynical calculation, with pathos and heartbreak added in at the end.
Posted Oct 17, 2024
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Joker: Folie à Deux
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Turgid with misery, it’s basically the jukebox musical from hell.
Posted Oct 04, 2024
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The Substance
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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[Moore's] performance is an escalating howl of panic and desperation that’s also acidly sarcastic and ludicrously funny.
Posted Sep 21, 2024
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My Old Ass
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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This is all beguiling and strange, with the light ease of a skipping stone. But "Old Ass" turns out to be a lovely late-summer weepie.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Beetlejuice 2 doesn’t build on the first film or take Burton any further as a director.
Posted Sep 09, 2024
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Blink Twice
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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It’s a wild, weird horror ride that borders on fairy-tale nightmare and maybe even biblical allegory.
Posted Aug 23, 2024
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It Ends With Us
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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[Lively] has a willowy vulnerability, an intriguing air of remote sadness and a soft, muffled voice that sounds as if she were speaking from within a pile of autumn leaves.
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Deadpool & Wolverine offers a rapid-fire, winkingly self-aware commentary on comic-book franchises (including X-Men) and Disney corporate might.
Posted Jul 26, 2024
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Twisters
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Twisters hews closely to Twister’s adrenaline-spiking high points, and that will be enough for audiences.
Posted Jul 22, 2024
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Sing Sing
(2023)
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Tom Gliatto
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It understands all too well the difference between a liberated imagination and the actual physical freedom that beckons beyond the prison walls.
Posted Jul 15, 2024
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Hit Man
(2023)
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Tom Gliatto
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Hit Man is a complete original, with a magical quirkiness all its own.
Posted Jun 08, 2024
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Back to Black
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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[Marisa Abela's] resemblance to Winehouse is striking... But it’s not a transcendent performance, the sort that awes and thrills you with an actress’s bravura and muscle -- and it needs to be.
Posted Jun 06, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Furiosa experiences nonstop cruelty as she moves from one hellish compound to another, but she learns, adapts, fights and prevails. She enthralls.
Posted Jun 06, 2024
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Dramatically this is good, rousing stuff. There’s a churning sense of tumult and a string of strong action scenes. You have to be patient, though.
Posted May 10, 2024
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The Fall Guy
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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What matters is Gosling... He could have whole-heartedly embraced the role's vacuousness, as he did with his glorious turn as Ken in Barbie. But he goes a little deeper without ever sacrificing the film's humor.
Posted May 03, 2024
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Challengers
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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If tennis is about playing within the lines, Challengers is about boundaries crossed, recrossed and finally erased altogether.
Posted Apr 26, 2024
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Civil War
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Director Garland, who’s shown an incredibly rich gift for creating quietly threatening atmospheres in films like the horror masterpiece Annihilation, keeps you off-kilter, and he does it with great skill.
Posted Apr 12, 2024
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Damsel
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown continues to forge her path as Netflix’s leading lady, picking vehicles that neatly fit her talent and temperament.
Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Dune: Part Two
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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The film's bounty of new characters and performers give it a heightened sense of drama that’s at once both grander and more nuanced than Part One’s.
Posted Mar 01, 2024
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This Is Me... Now: A Love Story
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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The 65 minutes leading to Me’s Affleck apotheosis add up to a pull-out-all-the-stops musical -- wildly, deliriously ornate -- that sweeps us through a string of extravagant fantasy numbers, all of them showcasing the album’s infectious songs.
Posted Feb 16, 2024
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American Fiction
(2023)
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Tom Gliatto
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[Jeffrey Wright] gives a funny, bitter, sharply controlled performance, fueled by barely suppressed bile and an exasperated incredulity at modern culture. At the very least, he's a master of the slow burn.
Posted Jan 11, 2024
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Mean Girls
(2024)
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Tom Gliatto
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The musical numbers are mostly bright, brash and frequently awful. The songs just keep coming at you, noisily whirring with speed and determined to make maximum impact.
Posted Jan 10, 2024
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The Color Purple
(2023)
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Tom Gliatto
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This Purple unfolds with a rhapsodic ease and confidence that Steven Spielberg’s 1985 movie never really achieved... Here the singing and choreography move the story onto a different plane that’s more dreamlike and occasionally fantastical.
Posted Dec 28, 2023
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Wonka
(2023)
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Tom Gliatto
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A lavish, cheery and benign family entertainment.
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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Maestro
(2023)
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Tom Gliatto
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Bernstein is played by Cooper with gusto, verve and wit. He races through a movie percolating with glamour, passion and sturm und drang, that form of romantic, emotional turmoil affecting mostly famous artists.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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May December
(2023)
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Tom Gliatto
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May December is like a Lifetime movie that’s fallen into enemy hands.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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Leave the World Behind
(2023)
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Tom Gliatto
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You should be trying to puzzle out what it all can possibly mean. But after awhile you stop asking and just wait for the next expertly administered jolt.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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