A few years back, writer/director Ari Aster broke the horror mold with his films Hereditary and Midsommar, his Polanski-inspired sense of dread and interest in psych
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The thing about exorcism movies, like the new drooling nonsense The Pope’s Exorcist, is that they’re so, well, Catholic. As Pauline Kael noticed back in 1973 —
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Paint dries quickly… It’s a glib way of describing a movie about art, but it's also perfectly suited for a film that makes fun of TV art instructor Bob Ross. Of
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With Air, Ben Affleck’s latest directorial effort, he accomplishes the near-impossible: he makes a pending business deal as compelling as a hostage crisis (Arg
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Super Mario Bros. has been one of the most popular video games for nearly 40 years, and watching the joyous, colorful new film concoction, it's easy to see why. It's
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Kelly Reichardt has carved out a heroic corner for herself, as a quiet warrior-queen of true American indie cinema, in film after film, from Old Joy (2006) to First
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It’s certainly a vexing true-life saga: the essentially unsolved crime career of the Boston Strangler, from 1962 to 1964, in which 13 women were killed and for whi
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The latest Little Movie That Could — and it’d be hard to shrink any smaller — Mark Jenkin’s Cornish folk-horror chestnut Enys Men, is something of a miniatur
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Several years ago, a hitman was thrust back into a life of crime after a privileged thug killed his puppy and made off with his car. A deceptively simple story, but
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Actor turned writer/director Zach Braff must’ve gleaned some nuggets of wisdom after directing shows like Shrinking and Ted Lasso because in his latest effort, A G
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Tell the truth– the last time you broke into a penthouse apartment in Manhattan to steal million-dollar art, you took your cell phone with you, just in case your b
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From There’s Something About Mary to The Ringer, The Farrelly Brothers have always been fascinated by people with physical or cognitive challenges. And even if tho
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