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8.0/10
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Eureka
(2023)
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Natalia Keogan
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Lushly lensed and intensely cerebral, Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka is on par with the experimental Argentine director’s previous output.
Posted Sep 19, 2024
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5.8/10
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Transformers One
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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No matter how much various filmmakers attempt to strip it back down from Bay-level bombast, Transformers can’t escape itself.
Posted Sep 19, 2024
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3.0/10
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The Substance
(2024)
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Katarina Docalovich
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Fargeat undermines her film’s satirical point by catering to the same male gaze that the script claims to despise so deeply.
Posted Sep 18, 2024
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7.0/10
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Never Let Go
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Never Let Go is a horror movie more interested in what it can evoke than what it can state or even imply.
Posted Sep 17, 2024
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8.3/10
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The Order
(2024)
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Jason Gorber
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With great performances, a taut script, and an execution an order of magnitude better than Kurzel’s previous films, The Order provides a chilling yet compelling look into the past—and the same forces shaping our present.
Posted Sep 11, 2024
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6.0/10
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The End
(2024)
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Natalia Keogan
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The End never conjures a compelling enough thesis to justify its multiple massive missteps.
Posted Sep 11, 2024
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8.6/10
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All We Imagine as Light
(2024)
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Natalia Keogan
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Touching upon (but never proselytizing about) matters of misogyny, religion, caste and gentrification, All We Imagine as Light exudes unwavering naturalism.
Posted Sep 11, 2024
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5.9/10
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Speak No Evil
(2024)
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Jacob Oller
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Despite a furiously alpha-male James McAvoy raging through the movie, Blumhouse’s hollowed-out remake undermines its nasty source material with its Americanized sheen.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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7/10
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Wynonna Earp: Vengeance
(2024)
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Anna Govert
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Fans of Wynonna Earp will absolutely get a kick out of this fun, funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking return to Purgatory. If you don’t have an overabundance of fuzzy feelings for the SYFY series, however, you may instead find yourself exhausted.
Posted Sep 09, 2024
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8.1/10
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Rebel Ridge
(2024)
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Dom Sinacola
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Rebel Ridge feels like a determined return to the relentlessness of Saulnier’s first films
Posted Sep 05, 2024
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6.0/10
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Look Into My Eyes
(2024)
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Katarina Docalovich
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Look into My Eyes is a unique window into the minds of those who experience a lot of feelings about the state of the world, but aren’t quite sure what to say or do about them.
Posted Sep 05, 2024
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7.0/10
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024)
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Trace Sauveur
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice makes the case that hand-crafted, unpolished disorder is really what gets Burton’s juices flowing.
Posted Sep 04, 2024
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8.3/10
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Adam Sandler: Love You
(2024)
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Will DiGravio
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It is, truly, among Sandler’s finest, most moving works to date.
Posted Sep 03, 2024
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4.8/10
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AfrAId
(2024)
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Natalia Keogan
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Making such an insubstantial film about one of our era’s greatest technological shifts isn’t just annoying. It feels downright irresponsible.
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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6/10
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The Killer
(2024)
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Tara Bennett
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It’s the palpable, playful chemistry between Emmanuel and Sy that finally gives this version of The Killer a reason to exist. Their rapport is a little bit sexy, witty and plenty world-weary. Every time they reunite, the film crackles back to life.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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6.4/10
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Blink Twice
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Even the movie’s best moments – and much of Blink Twice is entertaining through those moments – have the uncomfortable feeling of satire designed from a moneyed remove.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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6.8/10
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The Crow
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Yet like his Ghost in the Shell remake, the Sanders Crow makes something oddly compelling out of a bad idea.
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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8.7/10
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By the Stream
(2024)
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Katarina Docalovich
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Although many Hong Sang-soo signatures are present in his newest film...By the Stream marks a subtle but striking shift in his preoccupations and artistry.
Posted Aug 22, 2024
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7.5/10
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Hell Hole
(2024)
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Matthew Jackson
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While Hell Hole is not the family’s best film, it is proof that they’re still among the most fascinating and consistently entertaining players in the horror game.
Posted Aug 21, 2024
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6.0/10
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The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
(2024)
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B.L. Panther
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The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat plays like a Golden Corral that’s begun to tarnish, with an overstuffed menu of narrative choices, none of which arrive fully cooked.
Posted Aug 19, 2024
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5.0/10
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
(2024)
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Katarina Docalovich
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Rasoulof knows a much more challenging and incomprehensible reality than many of us ever will, but it’s missing from the straightforward obviousness of The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Posted Aug 19, 2024
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6.1/10
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Skincare
(2024)
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Natalia Keogan
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Disappointing but not outright disastrous, Skincare never penetrates past superficial observations of how beauty, success and artificiality constantly commingle among the Los Angeles elite.
Posted Aug 15, 2024
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6.0/10
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Elijah Gonzalez
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In its attempts to emulate every shifting form the series has taken over the years, it ends up less a perfect organism, and more a flawed creation that doesn’t meet company standards.
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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6.9/10
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Jackpot!
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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In spirit, if not necessarily execution, this is the American version of an old Jackie Chan movie, where the action and the comedy become one and the same, not mismatched partners.
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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9.0/10
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Daughters
(2024)
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Natalia Keogan
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Rae and Patton construct a visually stunning and narratively resonant portrait of love and longing.
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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2/10
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Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats
(2024)
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Brooke Knisley
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Rogan simply wants to have his cake and eat it, too.
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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2.3/10
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Borderlands
(2024)
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Jacob Oller
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Eli Roth’s haphazard direction, terrible script and disastrous ending turns a nondescript sci-fi adventure into a truly awful Borderlands movie.
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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7.5/10
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Cuckoo
(2024)
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Brianna Zigler
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Cuckoo is a twisty, giallo-inspired, semi-body horror mystery that double acts as an impressive lead showcase proving that Schafer is more than just an “it girl.”
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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6.7/10
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War Game
(2024)
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Natalia Keogan
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What might quell the anxiety of some viewers will likely ignite incredulity among others, particularly as the simulation concludes a bit too cleanly for our current moment of extremist rhetoric and action.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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8.0/10
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Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
(2024)
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Tara Bennett
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Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie is a visually clever, character-redefining film for the strongest of animated smart gals, Sandy Cheeks.
Posted Aug 04, 2024
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4.6/10
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
(2024)
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Rory Doherty
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Whether it’s Sony execs updating spreadsheets or parents putting something on to distract their kids, Harold is most valuable to people who won’t watch it. Make sure you’re one of them.
Posted Jul 31, 2024
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4.5/10
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Sebastian
(2024)
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Jacob Oller
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Sebastian plays like a rejected article from The Cut, where a tired-eyed twink rejects all self-awareness in pursuit of literary glory.
Posted Jul 31, 2024
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7.9/10
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Only the River Flows
(2023)
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Andy Crump
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[This crime thriller is] a gradual breakdown, complemented by Chengma Zhiyuan’s thoughtful and measured cinematography.
Posted Jul 25, 2024
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7.8/10
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Starve Acre
(2023)
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Matthew Jackson
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It will not satisfy every viewer, but those who are able to tune into its particular malevolent hum will find a remarkably atmospheric tapestry of dread
Posted Jul 25, 2024
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5.9/10
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The Fabulous Four
(2024)
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B.L. Panther
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The Fabulous Four plays out like an undressed salad paid for by the Key West tourism board
Posted Jul 25, 2024
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5.5/10
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Twisters
(2024)
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Brianna Zigler
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A lot of Twisters is spent, quite frankly, waiting for Glen Powell to come back and make things interesting again.
Posted Jul 18, 2024
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6.6/10
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Oddity
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Oddity is simultaneously an impressive production and a bizarre lesson in the vagaries of fear: without visibly shifting its tactics, it can be shiver-inducing in a few scenes and tedious in others.
Posted Jul 18, 2024
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6.5/10
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Skywalkers: A Love Story
(2024)
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Natalia Keogan
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While the footage obtained from the duo’s exploits is thrilling and impressively artful, Zimbalist’s own due diligence as a filmmaker isn’t totally exerted.
Posted Jul 17, 2024
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6.7/10
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Dandelion
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Its different moods could probably all work together in concert, under the right, delicate circumstances. Instead, Dandelion often feels like it’s running through its different options discretely.
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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9.5/10
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Look Back
(2024)
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Autumn Wright
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Look Back is a requiem for art lost to violence, to circumstance, to conformity. It is also an argument to create.
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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5.2/10
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Descendants: The Rise of Red
(2024)
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Anna Govert
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While the effort is certainly there, it still can’t quite reach the highs of its predecessors, instead offering a fourth installment that is lackluster in both its musical moments and overarching story.
Posted Jul 11, 2024
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5.5/10
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Eno
(2024)
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Natalia Keogan
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This approach fundamentally misunderstands Eno’s entire creative ethos, which relies on technology to elevate—not replace—the unique human ability to create art, a quality that is sorely remiss here.
Posted Jul 11, 2024
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8.5/10
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Longlegs
(2024)
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Jacob Oller
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Precisely crafted and just odd enough to disarm you, allowing its evil to fully seep in, Longlegs is a riveting tale of influence and immersion.
Posted Jul 11, 2024
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8.0/10
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
(2024)
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Brogan Morris
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Having made Powell and Pressburger legendary, Scorsese with Made in England finally helps to mortalize them.
Posted Jul 10, 2024
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7.0/10
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Family Portrait
(2023)
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Katarina Docalovich
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Closely choreographed chaos paired with a harsh soundscape... ushers us into an enigmatic story of a family on the brink of unraveling.
Posted Jul 09, 2024
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7.1/10
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Fly Me to the Moon
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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There’s certainly room for historically backdropped romance that’s more cute than sexy, more respectful than irreverent, more PG than rated R.
Posted Jul 09, 2024
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7.8/10
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Rachel Scanlon: Gay Fantasy
(2024)
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Clare Martin
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Scanlon knows her audience well. She’s not trying to be palatable to everyone, instead making every single queer person (and clued-in ally) watching feel like they’re part of the best club ever.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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9.2/10
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
(2023)
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Andy Crump
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Certain moments lend Chronicles of a Wandering Saint the feel of Renaissance paintings, pairing vibrant and cool colors with an encompassing emphasis on interplay between light and shadow.
Posted Jul 05, 2024
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6.1/10
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Group Therapy
(2024)
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Will DiGravio
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Group Therapy fails to mirror the paradox of the subject at its core, never finding a balance between watchability and actual depth.
Posted Jul 05, 2024
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5.6/10
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Space Cadet
(2024)
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Jesse Hassenger
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An astronaut version of Bringing Up Baby never develops, and the mild Legally Blonde fizz doesn’t last, either.
Posted Jul 05, 2024
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