This year we hunt big game. This year you get your first kill. So says seasoned hunter Cal (Matt Bomer) to his teenage son David (Josh Wiggins), who's arrived in rur
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Every week, I tweet out and post my reviews of soon-to-be-released films, paying extra attention to the tiny ones that ?likely would get overshadowed by big-budget s
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The labyrinthine nature of memory, trauma and guilt is made concrete in Benedict Andrews' Una, a film that intermittently sends its characters wandering around w
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Writer/director Angela Robinson's Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is achingly normal, in a good way. Robinson has proven herself capable of melding her sincer
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The biggest shock in Federica Di Giacomo's Deliver Us, a doc tracking the everyday toil of exorcists in Sicily, comes when the priests, at last enjoying a respite fr
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Fifty years ago, in 1967, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, In the Heat of the Night and The Dirty Dozen rocked American cinemas. And somewhere in a fi
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) premieres on Netflix Oct. 13. Adam Sandler's core as a performer has always been his self-loathing. In his best comedies, h
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Spielberg premieres Oct. 7 on HBO.While the studios accuse critics and Rotten Tomatoes of killing the movie business, Steven Spielberg is happy to look right into th
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With its cast of Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, its original non-franchise source material, its adult concerns and utter lack of superheroics, Hany Abu-Assad's The Mou
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The recipe for a perfect Christmas horror film ? think the 1974 classic Black Christmas or 2010's more arty, Finnish offering Rare Exports ? calls for dark humor, at
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Some of the best films I saw at Fantastic Fest were nearly unclassifiable, ranging from allegorical religious retellings in the streets of Budapest to paeans of prid
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BoJack Horseman streams on Netflix. It's not a huge surprise that my sensitive and kind-hearted spouse could be left sobbing by an episode of a popular TV show. She'
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