In the opening scene of Transformers: The Last Knight, we are presented with the spectacle of King Arthur and his knights locked in an existential battle for the sur
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Ever since her feature debut, The Virgin Suicides (1999), a dreamy, diaphanous tale about the mysteries of girlhood, Sofia Coppola has ranked among the finest distil
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Though it's a phlegmatic, sometimes stumbling thriller, Moka, directed and co-written by Fr?d?ric Mermoud, still has its share of gripping suspense. These tense mome
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Ana Lily Amirpour's comic post-apocalyptic action-drama offers little explanation of what exactly its bad batch? is, or how the members of its motley, unfortunate tr
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UPDATE: The location of the pop-ups has changed. All four films will now screen at Lake Balboa, 6335 Woodley Ave., Van Nuys. Dates and times are the same. In 1996, t
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Few films or lives boast a truth teller who makes the stakes more powerfully stark than Vivian Saunders does early in Raising Bertie, Margaret Byrne's essential debu
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The 2Pac biopic All Eyez on Me completes an unofficial trilogy of what we could call the Bad Boy/Death Row cinematic universe. It began with 2009's Biggie Smalls bio
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The Book of Henry really wants us to believe that its 12-year-old title character (Jaeden Lieberher) is the smartest kid on Earth. Well, in many ways, he is. He's a
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Maudie is hit-or-miss, but you'll probably bawl anyway. Its creators have elected to dramatize nothing but the things that traditional narrative features usually bot
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At least Rough Night, Lucia Aniello's dutifully raucous new bachelorette-party comedy, achieves verisimilitude. It's a rough watch and an evening killer, this film a
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Here's something I never guessed I would say: It might be worth going into the new Cars movie spoiler-free.Without giving anything away, I can tell you that, at
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Lucia Aniello's ensemble comedy Rough Night might look, from its marketing, like a gender-flipped Very Bad Things. Both comedies feature a pre-wedding party that goe
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