Your discombobulation begins with the gnarled English of that title Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn? It sounds like the text of a particularly inept Ukrainian phishi
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Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial debut, Tick, Tick... Boom! should cement his name as a director. After his Broadway show Hamilton, Miranda burst onto the screen wit
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The new Welsh horror film The Feast works hard at distinguishing itself from the indie-freakout renaissance we've got going right now, beginning with its studied, el
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Bruce Campbell brings fans a bloody Black Friday in the form of his latest film, a horror alien romp about the dangers of consumerism. The actor is of course, best k
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Kenneth Branagh's Belfast, which he wrote and directed, is a sweet, sentimental treatment of a durable cinematic sub-genre: the childhood autobiography.Branagh spent
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The American Film Institute (AFI) offers what looks like its biggest film festival yet this year. Indeed, AFI Fest's hybrid showcase, held at the Chinese Theater in
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Continuing her recent streak of daring, indelible performances, Kristen Stewart in Spencer, is a woman on the verge of a breakdown. Or maybe she's on the verge of a
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In the past few years, Chloe Zhao has established herself as an indie filmmaker with an intimate approach to imagery and tone. Which makes her an interesting choice
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The arduous, mysterious process of transmogrifying life into art is at the very center of Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir Part II, a semi-autobiographical follow-up to he
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Horror films have always been great vessels for social commentary. The genre allows such messaging to feel natural, never hitting us over the head with yesterday's h
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In Eric Steel's Minyan, the documentary filmmaker's beautifully observed debut feature, a young gay man seeks to reconcile his growing self-awareness with the tradit
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Taking a hard left turn from his usual route of bold, evocative comedies, Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho veers down a darker road. Much like his American counterp
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