The intense, surreal new horror film Rupture, in which Noomi Rapace plays a single mother abducted and experimented upon in a mysterious complex, comes from an unlik
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Not long before the surprisingly violent finale of Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986), Melanie Griffith's wild girlturnedgood girlturnedcomplicated girl Audrey a
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It's easy to giggle at The Circle, the movie, just as it's easy to giggle sometimes at Dave Eggers, whose novel is the film's source. James Ponsoldt's adaptation (co
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The Handmaid's Tale premieres April 26 on Hulu.In the first episode of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood herself shows up to slap our heroine in the face. The gra
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If you don't have religion, you should at least have The Leftovers. HBO's rapturous drama hasn't found much of an audience during its brief time on Earth
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An early moment in Slack Bay, the latest from French provocateur Bruno Dumont, finds a plump police inspector in a black uniform rolling down a hill of white sand. I
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It's April 1992, and ABC commentator Judith Miller's voice has an exasperated tinge as she reports to her audience that not one of the officers who beat Rodney King
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After The Fate of the Furious premiered, talk of that franchise's ever slicker, more over-the-top future turned to the promise (and hope) of F&F jumping the sha
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In Montana, where writer-director Sarah Adina Smith filmed her small-town sci-fi flick, Buster's Mal Heart, the winter-inversion clouds hang heavy in valleys, trappi
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In Eric D. Howell's adaptation of Silvio Raffo's ghostly 1996 novel, Voice From the Stone, a timid woman finds employment as a nanny with a rural family ravaged by g
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Twice I've described Kitty Green's curious, alienating docu-whatzit Casting JonBen?t to friends, and twice I've been asked, with surprising heat, Why?? and What's th
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Keep your eyes on the magician's hands. She'll attempt to distract you with compliments and silly quips, but her most effective feint will be the story she tells as
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