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Dead Mail
A horror film set in the 1980s with a synthesizer score is…
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Sirens
Based on the play “Elemeno Pea” by Molly Smith Metzler, Netflix’s “Sirens”…
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Friendship
“Friendship” is the “Fatal Attraction” of male bonding comedies, and follows a…
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Sew Torn
Freddy MacDonald’s “Sew Torn” started as a short film. A young “mobile seamstress”…
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28 Years Later
Ever since IP-driven cinema took over, we’ve long missed the pleasure of…
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I Don’t Understand You
Two men’s babymoon is another family’s dinner party massacre. In the mixed-up…
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Desert of Namibia
We so often use our phones to escape, to procrastinate, to scroll…
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ADA – My Mother the Architect
I’ve been told that the one test vocational aptitude test-takers find the…
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Nonnas
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Sharp Corner
“Sharp Corner” is about a couple with a young son who leave…
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Predator: Killer of Killers
It’s hard to underestimate just how much of a pleasant surprise Dan…
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The Ritual
Any parent can tell you that raising a kid is expensive these…
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The Kiss
In the Danish language film “The Kiss,” based on a novel by…
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Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
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The Old Guard 2
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Lilo & Stitch
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Love
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Summer of 69
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Last Bullet
In 2020, Netflix released “Lost Bullet,” the first in what is currently…
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Emergent City
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Bring Her Back
Danny and Michael Philippou’s highly anticipated follow-up to their surprise hit “Talk…
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Absolute Dominion
The premise behind “Absolute Dominion” is intriguing enough to give it a…
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Shadow Force
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Once upon a time,…
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Drop Dead City
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Dangerous Animals
Sean Byrne’s “Dangerous Animals” is sharp in all the right places. It’s…
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The Damned
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Pavements
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Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII
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The Sound
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The Surrender
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Henry Johnson
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Watch the Skies
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Vulcanizadora
It’s tricky to write about writer-director-actor Joel Potrykus’ “Vulcanizadora,” because most of its…
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Coastal
Throughout his laudably long and productive career as one of the genuine…
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3 weeks ago175
Fear Street: Prom Queen
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Caught by the Tides
With “Caught By the Tides,” Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has made an…
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The Shrouds
David Cronenberg has been making movies for fifty years. His themes and…
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3 weeks ago181
The Moogai
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Forever
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The Four Seasons
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Another Simple Favor
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Bride Hard
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Final Destination Bloodlines
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Salvable
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Magic Farm
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O’Dessa
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Neighborhood Watch
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How to Train Your Dragon
The new version of “How to Train Your Dragon” doesn’t do a…
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A Desert
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The Surfer
If I were to make a list of my favorite Nicolas Cage…
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Without Arrows
“Without Arrows” is an ironic title for a film that pierces the…
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The Trouble with Jessica
The title and theme of “The Trouble with Jessica” echo one of…
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Wild to realize that, until the release of “The Day the Earth…
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Havoc
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Rust
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One to One: John & Yoko
A minor irony of this often exhilarating documentary is that it partially…
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The President’s Wife
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The Electric State
A long time ago, I was having lunch with a friend, a…
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The Accountant 2
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