Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO lands like a defibrillator to the chest, a jolting and immediate dose of cinematic verve designed to shock the stupefied viewer out of compl
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Like many artsy, subversive films, Bones and All is a bit of a mess. Both absurd and ambitious, tasteful and revolting, this dark adventure is too long, too violent
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Going to war is frightening, no doubt. But surely so is the military boot camp every soldier must first endure, an endeavor that comes with extra challenges for Elli
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Some people are begging to be skewered like lamb shanks over hot flames. At least that’s director Mark Mylod’s take in his dark comedy The Menu, which takes aim
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After entertaining audiences for nearly fifty years with groundbreaking blockbusters and epic dramas such as Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, and Schind
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When 43-year-old Chadwick Boseman passed away of colon cancer in 2020, an industry lost a huge talent and Marvel lost a pivotal hero. Director Ryan Coogler –whose
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Babak Payami's heartbreaking documentary is a prologue to a much longer story about the fight for lasting change in Iran.On January 8, 2020, shortly after departing
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The protracted, and syntactically awkward title of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new film—Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths—may seem a touch abs
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Movies about childhood are usually as colorful as the puffballs in Amarcord, as catchy as the songs in Almost Famous and as sentimental as the bedtime stories in Boy
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The hunger for horror is most definitely not going away with the Halloween season. Last month, people returned to theaters to catch titles such as Halloween Ends, Ba
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Henry Selick’s Wendell and Wild puts the "ooh" back in "boo." At once morbid and magical, made out of skeleton bones and stop-motion clay, it is a wholly unique co
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Some movies merely exist to remind us of better ones from the past. On that superficial level, Ticket to Paradise starring continuously dapper actor/producer/directo
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