Twenty-five year-old actor-writer-director Cooper Raiff has followed his terrific indie comedy, Shithouse (2020) with Cha Cha Real Smooth, a more serious-minded film
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The great horror films stick with you because the emotional stakes are high; when we form an empathetic link with the main characters, our fear becomes personal. The
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In 1995, a boy named Andy got a toy from his favorite movie. This is that movie. This simple line of text appears as Lightyear begins, letting the audience know exac
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When a film advertises itself as the new Adam Sandler joint, it's hard to know what to expect these days. His track record is so spotty, it's never clear what kind o
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Dances with Films 2022: What started as a riff on Sundance, Slamdance, et al, became a festival with important and achievable goals to showcase the best undiscovered
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A kind of career-capping, gross-out victory lap, David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future, is a triumph of perverse auteurism. To say no other artist could've splooge
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Danny Boyle was 19 when the Sex Pistols' notoriety exploded in England. The band had a formidable impact on the filmmaker's life that would inspire him for years to
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Nominally known as the funniest cooks on television, the Belchers family, as seen on Bob's Burgers, have found a notably wide audience; even those who don't like ani
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Top Gun is back, and all is right in the world. Well, maybe not all. Maverick still has problems, as he did three decades ago, and people like Iceman still want to s
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Horror films aren't just horror films anymore like Alex Garland's Men, these lurkers could be an emerging subgenre, and we could heretofore borrow a label from a re
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More performance art than music documentary, Andrew Dominik's This Much I Know to Be True is a stripped down but complex portrait of Australian musician/poet Nick Ca
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Movies about filmmaking seem to have a built-in spiritual dimension, as if the instinct to create art is in fact a quest comparable to Galahad's search for the sacre
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