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Mark Keizer
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Juror #2 (2024) |
A clean, unfussy throwback thriller that doesn’t just lean into its moral conundrums, it also dines on them. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Nov 01, 2024
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Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024) |
More a family friendly drama with a light, faith-based streak than a tough-minded survival epic, Lost on a Mountain in Maine achieves its modest aims and even jerks an easily-achieved tear by the end. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Oct 31, 2024
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The Gutter (2024) |
It gets a grudging pass for its likability, sheer volume of jokes, overachieving cast that includes Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, and charming, low-budget indifference to political correctness and match cuts. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Oct 27, 2024
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My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2022) |
A thoroughly fascinating and risk-taking deep dive that luxuriates in the themes and visual motifs inherent in the Master of Suspense’s filmography. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Oct 23, 2024
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Classified (2024) |
A slew of action thriller clichés, logy fight choreography, dull pew-pew shootouts and a miscast Abigail Breslin. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Oct 22, 2024
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MadS (2024) |
It plays off our modern-day fears of helplessness in the face of inescapable, often invisible, threats and every teenager’s eventual realization that today’s world is not one big rave. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Oct 15, 2024
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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023) |
While it edges towards hagiography and is visually rather pedestrian, it still performs the noble service of reclaiming Noël Coward from the mists of history. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Oct 08, 2024
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Blink (2024) |
The film never attempts a knockout emotional punch, content to be a gently moving, family-friendly look at two wonderful parents and their brave children. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Oct 02, 2024
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And Mrs (2024) |
While no one was expecting Harold and Maude-levels of risk and reward, Reisinger’s occasionally amusing film takes a well-meaning idea and drowns it in strained comedy, removing too much of the real-life messiness from it. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Sep 26, 2024
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Saturday Night (2024) |
A tightly focused, vibe-accurate, mile-a-minute chronicle of how an insanely difficult and profoundly influential television series careened like an out-of-control bumper car to its premiere. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Sep 25, 2024
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Merchant Ivory (2023) |
Required viewing for those craving more information about a personal and professional relationship that was often just as fascinating as any Merchant Ivory film. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Sep 03, 2024
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Crumb Catcher (2023) |
A rambling and muddled attempt to approximate the result had Funny Games director Michael Haneke helmed a remake of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - MovieWeb
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| Posted Sep 03, 2024
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Wolfs (2024) |
Feels like a eulogy for sophisticated capers like the Oceans series that helped make Clooney and Pitt global superstars.
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| Posted Sep 03, 2024
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Alien: Romulus (2024) |
Director Fede Álvarez traffics in a tactile, dirt under the fingernails, practical aesthetic that’s so enveloping it smothers our natural inclination to recoil at such fan service. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) |
As fan service goes, the movie is about as mercenary as it gets, but it flatters us with a continuous wink that suggests no joke is too vulgar or inside baseball to earn our laughter. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Jul 25, 2024
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Fly Me to the Moon (2024) |
Very little of Fly Me to the Moon is credible which may be survivable in a frothy romcom but fatal in a film trying to juggle comedy, romance, drama, tragedy, and farce.
- CineGods.com
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Inside Out 2 (2024) |
The first film took most of the chances and was justifiably rewarded. The sequel finds new avenues to explore but in a more crowd-pleasing, less challenging vein. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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The Fall Guy (2024) |
The Fall Guy is loud, fun and state of the art but still manages to feel deeply personal to a stunt performer turned director who clearly loves his former profession and those who continue to risk life and limb for our delectation. - CineGods.com
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| Posted May 02, 2024
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Civil War (2024) |
Garland trades on our partisan anger and slowly shames us for it, testing to see if we’re so far gone that we can’t be horrified that some version of the events depicted could actually happen. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Apr 12, 2024
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) |
This beloved series continues down an unfulfilling and humor-deprived family adventure path and none of the new characters will be as adored 40 years from now as Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston remain 40 years after the original. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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The Animal Kingdom (2023) |
The Animal Kingdom is so enraptured with its sense of sci-fi art film significance that key character conflicts feel neglected and the promise of its central conceit is only superficially fulfilled. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Mar 14, 2024
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Spaceman (2024) |
Fails to mine the source material for anything unique to say about human behavior while promising bits of character background, world building, and nods to the fall of Czechoslovakian Communism are introduced but remain curiously unexplored. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Feb 29, 2024
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Madame Web (2024) |
Madame Web, with its eye-rolling dialogue, miscast lead, and dime store psychology, is more proof that Sony’s bandwagon attempt to cobble together a cinematic universe strictly for the benefit of its quarterly earnings reports has been dead since day one. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Feb 14, 2024
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024) |
A sloppily paced, stitched together combination of disparate genres and worn-out ’80s references that’s neither as transgressive nor as rad as it thinks it is. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Feb 07, 2024
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The Beekeeper (2024) |
The flimsiest, silliest, most thinly-conceptualized pretense for Statham to scowl and brawl his way through another high gloss wannabe franchise launcher. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Jan 12, 2024
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The Marvels (2023) |
A jumble of personal and interpersonal conflicts, tiresome talk of quantum bands and jump points, and left field attempts at humor that play like discarded ideas from the Guardians of the Galaxy series. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Nov 10, 2023
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She Came to Me (2023) |
With its surfeit of characters and storylines, She Came to Me lays a lot of pipe in the service of very little humor or insight. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Oct 06, 2023
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Flora and Son (2023) |
Carney once again argues with warmth, honesty, cheeky humor, and a lack of sentimentality that music can connect even the most physically and emotionally distant of souls. It may sound corny, but dammit if Carney doesn’t make it sing. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Sep 21, 2023
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The Inventor (2023) |
One almost feels guilty for disliking The Inventor since it has so much going for it. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (2022) |
A work of Gallic, pastel-colored rebellion designed as a lovely little kids film. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Aug 31, 2023
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Meg 2: The Trench (2023) |
Meg 2: The Trench is better than the first film because, while it repeats everything the first film did wrong, it improves on everything it did right. - AV Club
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Dreamin' Wild (2022) |
Veers away from our expectations and towards something more downbeat yet also lovely and emotionally attuned. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Jul 31, 2023
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The Beanie Bubble (2023) |
A distinctly American story of guts, genius, delusion, and well-earned comeuppance. - CineGods.com
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| Posted Jul 21, 2023
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A Man Called Otto (2022) |
A Man Called Otto is easy to settle into but hard to believe.
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| Posted Dec 28, 2022
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Emancipation (2022) |
A Will Smith vanity project that pales next to more accomplished films about Black suffering that better remind us of our nation’s ongoing shame. - AV Club
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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The Estate (2022) |
The execution is where it’s lacking: the wit, the timing, the headlong comic drive, and the ability to make us laugh at actions and dialogue that, in any other context, would be rude or distasteful. - AV Club
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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Call Jane (2022) |
A career-best performance by Elizabeth Banks and a spicy, Earth Mother turn by Sigourney Weaver are more than enough reasons to see Call Jane... - AV Club
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| Posted Oct 27, 2022
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Wendell & Wild (2022) |
It’s so packed with gloriously demented visuals and bold thematic swings that try, with varying degrees of success, to lift the film out of the realm of pure fantasy, that we’re not entirely bothered by the convoluted story. - AV Club
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| Posted Oct 24, 2022
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Decision to Leave (2022) |
With Decision To Leave, Park expands his formidably-deep skill set. - AV Club
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Dead for a Dollar (2022) |
Rarely has so little tension been generated by a hero with so many bad guys lining up to kill him. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 30, 2022
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The Good House (2021) |
Weaver is so forceful and present she can plow through the movie’s flaws until we fail to notice them. For a film about denial, that sounds about right. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Catherine Called Birdy (2022) |
A charming, clever, and altogether delicious comeback film that redefines Dunham in a way that just recently seemed unlikely. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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Jane (2022) |
A slow burn thriller where complicated YA issues and vengeful social media posts make for a less than potent mix. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 16, 2022
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The Retaliators (2021) |
An ungainly horror mashup that works in pieces, most notably during its climatic free-for-all, but not as a whole. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 13, 2022
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Spin Me Round (2022) |
Takes only modest jabs at romantic comedy tropes, and is willing only to lightly sauté corporate culture instead of thoroughly roasting it. - AV Club
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| Posted Aug 18, 2022
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Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) |
All this mayhem never really adds up to much, as if calling out Gen Z for the folly of their well-intentioned faults was enough. And yet, it is enough, thanks to the film’s very game and hard-working cast. - AV Club
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| Posted Aug 03, 2022
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I Love My Dad (2022) |
If we’re ultimately not sure what greater point Morosini is trying to make, that’s okay. Consider ourselves honored, if slightly uncomfortable, guests at Morosini’s breakthrough therapy session. - AV Club
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| Posted Aug 03, 2022
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The Road to Galena (2022) |
A movie of tropes and clichés that argues, with generic earnestness and a near-total lack of surprise, that the city is a corrupting influence compared to the nurturing, sun-drenched simplicity of the country. - AV Club
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022) |
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between has all the markings of a typical YA story at a time when most teen viewers, to their credit, respond better to something that feels real and not shiny and pre-packaged. - AV Club
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| Posted Jul 06, 2022
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Beba (2021) |
A virtuoso bomb-drop of a documentary. - AV Club
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| Posted Jun 24, 2022
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