Brad Pitt stars as a top-of-his-game hitman in this ultra-violent caper that plays out largely in real time on board a bullet train headed from Tokyo to Kyoto. Directed by David Leitch (‘John Wick’), it’s a mile-a-minute thriller that includes ample sprinklings of much-needed humor along with killer (ba-dum-dum) performances […]
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Wedding Season
This charming little Ron Howard-produced rom-com stars Suraj Sharma and Pallavi Sharda as a young Indian couple who fake a relationship to avoid scrutiny from their meddling relatives, and, naturally, they wind up falling for each other. There’s nothing new plot-wise here at any point, but the film still succeeds, […]
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Thirteen Lives
Director Ron Howard’s dramatization of the incredible 2018 Thai cave rescue comes hot on the heels of last fall’s superb documentary ‘The Rescue’. Here, Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, and Joel Edgerton star as the rescue divers, and it remains a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat thriller…which is quite the testament, since the whole […]
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Vengeance
Written and directed by B.J. Novak, this gritty crime drama centers on a liberal, big-city podcast host who travels to West Texas to investigate the death of a former one-night stand. It’s a funny and sharp satire mixed set against the background of a bleak, Taylor Sheridan-esque landscape and puts […]
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Honor Society
It’s not often you get a smart coming-of-age comedy with mature themes, a sophisticated script, and a genuine neck-snapping twist… but here you go. Angourie Rice stars are the fourth-wall-breaking Honor, a go-getter hell-bent on getting into Harvard. All she has to do is sabotage her other top-of-the-classmates to make […]
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Not Okay
While certainly relevant and ultimately haunting, this satiric dram-com written and directed by Quinn Shephard is a difficult watch. Zoey Deutch turns heads as Danni, as a schlubby loser who dreams of getting some Insta likes when all of a sudden fame finds her. While lying about being on a […]
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Not Just a Girl
The latest in the long line of useless rock-docs that play out like a greatest hits Wikipedia entry, Not Just a Girl gives us a ho-hum Shania Twain career retrospective. Even for mild fans, there’s nothing here you didn’t already know, precious little you haven’t already heard, and only a […]
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Nope
Jordan Peele’s latest (he wrote, directed, and produced) is a head-spinning mash-up of sci-fi, horror, and suspense designed to creep you the hell out while also making you wonder what the heck is going on. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer star as sibling Hollywood horse wranglers whose ranch is pestered […]
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My Old School
From the absolute top of the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction pile, this documentary about an off-kilter Scottish lad who showed up at secondary school in the mid-90s and raised more questions than he answered, is a wild (and inventive) ride that will have you hooked from the start. Filmed mostly as a ‘Daria’-style […]
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The Gray Man
Ryan Gosling (good guy) squares off against Chris Evans (bad guy) in this spy vs. spy action flick from directors Joe and Anthony Russo (‘Avengers: Endgame’). It’s big-budget, bloody, mindless fun combining beautiful people (Ana de Armas, Regé-Jean Page, and Dhanush co-star), exotic locales (Prague, Vienna, and Château de Chantilly), […]
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