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Sinners 2025
A bloody, muscular, barrelhouse of a vampire movie that throbs like the neck of a blues guitar on fire, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” might be the first story the “Creed” director has ripped straight from his own guts, but it thrillingly continues his post-“Fruitvale” tradition of filtering real and imagined Black histories through the prism of blockbuster entertainment, and of doing so in a way that recognizes genre as a living connection between the past and the future, as opposed to…
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The Amateur 2025
Logic suggests that rogue CIA assassin Jason Bourne might be much less of a threat if — instead of a shredded government super-soldier with a sniper’s accuracy and no personal attachments — he were a vaguely autistic wife guy who couldn’t hit someone with a bazooka if they were standing right in front of him. James Hawes’ “The Amateur” begs to differ.
An aggressively competent spy thriller that has less use for logic than its lead actor does for his…
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The Substance 2024
watching the last 30 minutes of this movie with a packed audience is truly one of life's greatest pleasures.
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