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Peter Travers
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A Different Man (2024) |
Thios head-twisting, heart-piercing psychological thriller stars a never-better Sebastian Stan as a facially disfigured actor who has an operation to remove his scars and finds he can't hide the gloomy, self-loathing introvert that lingers in his DNA. - ABC News
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| Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Speak No Evil (2024) |
This English-language horror remake can’t touch the 2022 Danish original, but it gets in its scarefest licks thanks to a smiling devil of a lead performance from James McAvoy that will creep you out big time and fry your never to a frazzle - ABC News
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| Posted Sep 13, 2024
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His Three Daughters (2023) |
Three sublime actresses, Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and an Oscar-ready Natasha Lyonne, portray sisters coping with the impending death of their father in a bruisingly funny and sad chamber piece from Azazel Jacobs that takes a piece out of you. - ABC News
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| Posted Sep 06, 2024
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) |
We’ve waited 36 years for this sequel and despite some rough plot patches, Michael Keaton returns in peak form to the funniest role of his career as the trickster demon who’s determined to let his freak flag fly. The Juice is loose, babe. Act accordingly. - ABC News
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| Posted Sep 06, 2024
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Girls Town (1996) |
It’s a power house. Shot in 12 days in Hackensack, N.J., this low-budget debut by Jim McKay is a remarkable script collaboration between McKay and the three actresses who play high school seniors shocked into evaluating their lives. - Rolling Stone
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| Posted Sep 03, 2024
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Strange Darling (2023) |
Summer just saved its thrillingest thriller for last. Starring a wow Kyle Gallner and Willa Fitzgerald, this gut punch from JT Mollner brings a day in the romantic twisted love life of a serial killer to vivid life on screen. You won’t know what hit you. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 30, 2024
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The Deliverance (2024) |
Even talented people can make terrible movies like this all-star, devil-made-me-do-it horror show from Lee Daniels with an overqualified cast underfunded special effects, a sinkhole of a script and a nutso confidence in its own nonexistent profundity. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 30, 2024
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Skincare (2024) |
Beauty can be an ugly business so it’s too bad this tense, fitfully funny satire about vanity scammers only goes skin deep. But it’s all flowers for Elizabeth Banks who is sheer bonkers perfection as a cosmetics control freak losing control. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 23, 2024
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Blink Twice (2024) |
Sure, it’s a bit predictable, but actress Zoe Kravitz—in a promising directing debut— milks every ounce of suspense out of this #MeToo thriller set on an island paradise where pretty young things accept invites from tycoon Channing Tatum at their peril. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 23, 2024
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Close to You (2023) |
This mostly improvised drama about a trans man reuniting with his family can feel clumsy and contrived, but it soars on waves of raw feeling thanks to the deeply felt, deeply moving performance of Elliot Page in a role he wears like a second skin. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 16, 2024
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Alien: Romulus (2024) |
The seventh chapter in the creepy-crawly franchise shamelessly feeds off the DNA of the first two sci-fi space classics. But new director Fede Alvarez dishes out serviceable funhouse horrors with the gory enthusiasm of the alien fanboy he most truly is. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 16, 2024
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It Ends With Us (2024) |
Fighting their way out of the flowery tearjerking in the film version of Colleen Hoover’s mega-bestseller are a movie and a stellar Blake Lively performance that both take measure of domestic violence and the women who get to decide when enough is enough. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 09, 2024
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The Instigators (2024) |
Since heist movies are a dime a dozen, don’t get your hopes up. But thanks to the easy chemistry between Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, there is the kick of an acting job well done. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 02, 2024
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Trap (2024) |
Hartnett does his best playing a serial killer and devoted dad living in the same body. But you don’t need a sixth sense to know that director M. Knight Shyamalan is running on empty as his patchwork thriller slips from disappointment to disaster. - ABC News
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| Posted Aug 02, 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) |
Is it a great movie? Nah. It's too slick a Marvel package, with surprisingly meh special effects and an energy that’s more desperation than inspiration. But stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are willing to bust a gut to make you laugh. So there’s that. - ABC News
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| Posted Jul 26, 2024
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Twisters (2024) |
It’s the same old tornado twaddle, but the destructive power of weather has never been more timely, the star charisma of Glen Powell never more evident and the tenderness director Lee Isaac Chung shows for the land and its people never more appreciated - ABC News
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Longlegs (2024) |
When it comes to high-wire acting with no net, Nicolas Cage is a rock star and this serial-killing satanic devil ranks with his bizarro best even when filmmaker Oz Perkins slides into silliness. No matter—virtuoso Cage lights the spark and then, ka-boom! - ABC News
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Sing Sing (2023) |
The first indisputably great movie of 2024 is a blazing Oscar contender about a real-life prison arts program that helps caged birds, led by a simply stupendous Colman Domingo, to regain humanity with a heart full to bursting and a spirit that soars. - ABC News
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) |
Eddie Murphy is 63 now and sometimes the jokes seem just as retirement ready, but seeing this comic legend return to the cop role he created four decades ago—along with many of the old gang— at least squeaks by as primo fan service. - ABC News
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Despicable Me 4 (2024) |
Sure it repeats everything it did the last three times, but thanks to Steve Carell’s lovable grump of a Gru and those wild and crazy Minions, the random lunacy remains hard to resist. - ABC News
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| Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) |
Costner’s real reverence for the classic western dances with disaster by passing off the first of his four-part saga as epic filmmaking instead of a trio of speechifying, clumsily linked one-hour episodes that play like a TV series with no direction home. - ABC News
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
Oscar winner Emma Stone teams up again with her Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos for a mesmerizing mindteaser, costarring a fabulous Jesse Plemons, that tells three stories that you can’t stop thinking about as they entertain and exasperate. - ABC News
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| Posted Jun 21, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
The cool factor is off the charts as director Jeff Nichols and a trio of sizzling actors—Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy—turns a 1968 photobook about a 1968 motorcycle club into a vibrant vibe of a movie that vrooms to life on the big screen. - ABC News
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| Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Inside Out 2 (2024) |
Why is the sequel never the equal? Mostly because the surprise goes poof, along with the kick of originality. This followup to the animated Oscar-winning 2015 original can't do much about that, except deliver charm in sweet abundance. So why resist? - ABC News
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Am I OK? (2022) |
Dakota Johnson is aces as a late bloomer coming out in her 30s. The touchingly personal script by Lauren Pomerantz is funny as hell, but it’s her delicacy of feeling that sneaks up and floors you. Something special is going on here. Treasure it. - ABC News
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) |
The 4th round for Will Smith and Martin Lawrence isn’t a bad movie, really, just another mediocrity trying to cash in on what came before, the kind of money grab that’s killing movies by serving leftovers as the main course. Resist before it's too late. - ABC News
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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The Great Lillian Hall (2024) |
Starring the great Jessica Lange as a Broadway legend gobsmacked by dementia, this is a snappy, stirring tribute to theater as a lifeline. Ignore the drift into soap opera in favor of Lange’s transfixing master class in acting Just sit back and behold. - ABC News
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| Posted May 31, 2024
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Hit Man (2023) |
Oooowee, what a scorchingly sexy thriller. Powered by shining new star Glen Powell, who singes the screen with wowza costar Adria Arjona, this somewhat true story from Richard Linklater adds up to one of the best and most beguiling movies of the year. - ABC News
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| Posted May 31, 2024
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The Garfield Movie (2024) |
Soon to be infamous for bad decisions, this despairingly off-kilter toon looks like a movie but feels like a cynical cash grab propelled by the idiocy of turning our favorite mouthy, shamelessly lazy cat into a blah action hero voiced by Chris Pratt. - ABC News
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) |
OK, it’s no Fury Road, but action poet George Miller scores a solid base hit by replacing the irreplaceable Charlize Theron with livewire Anya Taylor-Joy as the younger Furiosa in the exhilarating act of inventing herself. You’ll be dazzled, guaranteed. - ABC News
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Back to Black (2024) |
While this sanitized and superficial Amy Winehouse biopic flounders around in search of focus, new star Marisa Abela gives her blazing all to capturing the late singer’s short, turbulent life and lasting art with stunning ferocity and feeling. - ABC News
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| Posted May 17, 2024
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I Saw the TV Glow (2024) |
Jane Schoenbrun's off-handedly evolutionary mindbender about two teens bonding over a sci-fi TV series isn't always easy to get your head and heart around. But hold on for its incendiary daring. Schoenbrun is a trans game changer. They make us believe. - ABC News
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) |
No. 10 in the series proves there’s still life, artful cosplay and action monkeyshines in the ape-verse that began in 1968, but a worrying case of franchise fatigue is sneaking in. Whatever happened to quitting while you're ahead? - ABC News
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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The Idea of You (2024) |
A 40-ish single mom hooks up with a 20-ish boy band star. Cue the mush? Not this time. Somehow sensational Anne Hathaway and swoony Nicholas Galitzine make the cliches dance, bringing humor, heat and unexpected heart to a fantasy for daydream fbelievers. - ABC News
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| Posted May 03, 2024
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The Fall Guy (2024) |
Ryan Gosling—he and Emily Blunt are romcom hotties to die for— knocks it out of the park in this insanely entertaining love letter to Hollywood’s unsung action heroes—stunt performers. Listen up, academy: an Oscar category for stunts is way overdue. - ABC News
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| Posted May 03, 2024
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Postcards From the Edge (1990) |
Fisher neatly skewers Hollywood pretension. And Nichols enlists a first-rate cast in cameo roles, including Dennis Quaid as an oversexed producer, Gene Hackman as a compassionate director and Richard Dreyfuss as a smitten doctor. - Rolling Stone
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| Posted Apr 29, 2024
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Challengers (2024) |
Zendaya shines like a true movie star, and she and costars Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist will blow you away as tennis pros in Luca Guadagnino’s swoony, sexy romantic triangle that finds hilarious and hardcore erotic mischief off the court and on. - ABC News
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| Posted Apr 26, 2024
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Coup de Chance (2023) |
This French bonbon, Woody Allen’s best reviewed film in years, is no career landmark. But its blend of humor and homicide shows Allen, 88, still moving forward, creating the kind of film he made his name on, the kind that makes you laugh till it hurts. - ABC News
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| Posted Apr 19, 2024
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Civil War (2024) |
In a hotly divisive, post Jan. 6 election year, Alex Garland embeds us with journalists, led by a wow Kirsten Dunst, covering a speculative second war between the states. The result is the most original and propulsively exciting movie of the year so far. - ABC News
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| Posted Apr 12, 2024
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The Beast (2023) |
Bertrand Bonello’s exhilarating cinematic challenge stars a never-better Lea Seydoux and George MacKay as lovers across space and time who fight to embrace the beast of their raging emotions while artificial intelligence threatens to eradicate it. - ABC News
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| Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Wicked Little Letters (2023) |
Mean tweets 1920 style: The incomparable Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley turn a flimsy script about poison pen letters that turn friends against each other into irresistible fun. Any resemblance to today’s internet trolling is purely intentional. - ABC News
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| Posted Mar 29, 2024
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Almost Famous (2000) |
If you haven't already sold your soul to rock & roll, Almost Famous should seal the deal. It’s pure pleasure. Just don’t expect the dark side. Not since A Hard Day’s Night has a movie caught the thrumming exuberance of going where the music takes you. - Rolling Stone
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| Posted Mar 26, 2024
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Road House (2024) |
Star Jake Gyllenhaal and director Doug Liman huff and puff to reimagine the bawdy B-movie punch of the 1989 original with Patrick Swayze, but despite putting a fresh coat of paint on this rickety old jalopy, there’s still nothing under the hood - ABC News
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Knox Goes Away (2023) |
Michael Keaton’s second film as star and director stumbles but rises again on the strength of Keaton’s ability to bring his bristling intelligence as an actor to his work behind camera in this darkly comic tale of a hitman losing a battle with dementia. - ABC News
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| Posted Mar 15, 2024
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Damsel (2024) |
Millie Bobby Brown fights a heroic battle as a princess bride up against a digital dragon, but it’s not the damsel but the audience that will suffer distress from the nonstop, numbing repetition that turns this movie dull and dreary way too fast. - ABC News
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024) |
Dive into this pulpy, erotic crime thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager in hot love with a bodybuilder (a sensational Katy M. O'Brian), Directed in a fever by the great Rose Glass, the film is a grenade of image and sound ready to blow. - ABC News
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Pulp Fiction (1994) |
There's a special kick that comes from watching something this thrillingly alive. - Rolling Stone
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| Posted Mar 01, 2024
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Dune: Part Two (2024) |
The year’s first surefire blockbuster is a sequel that outdoes Denis Villeneuve’s first epic 2021 sand opera. OK, it’s a tad long and solemn, but Chalamet and Zendaya are destiny-kissed lovers to die for, and the thundering spectacle is off the charts. - ABC News
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| Posted Mar 01, 2024
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The Boy and the Heron (2023) |
Japanese manga master Hayao Miyazaki, 83, came out of retirement for this hand-drawn beauty about his own life growing up in wartime. The Oscar for best animated feature belongs right here since Miyazaki’s unparalleled artistry shines out of every frame. - ABC News
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Drive-Away Dolls (2024) |
Ethan Coen’s lesbian road movie, cowritten with his wife Tricia Cooke who identifies as queer, is raucously funny when it doesn’t go slack and make you wish he’d reunite with his sibling Joel for the old Coen brothers magic that fails to materialize here. - ABC News
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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