A wild and wonderful avant-garde musical starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, this thing is a head trip and a half. With music by Sparks and direction by Leos Carax, it would never be a run-of-the-mill movie anyway, but Annette takes you to places you’ve never been, and you’ll have […]
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Vivo
‘The Croods’ director Kirk DeMicco teams with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Roger Deakins (as visual consultant), and a great voice cast (Nicole Byer, Michael Rooker, Zoe Saldana, and Gloria Estafan) for this heartwarming animated feature. The story centers on a kinkajou (Miranda) who travels from Cuba to Florida to deliver a touching […]
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Blackpink: The Movie
Produced primarily as a love letter to their fans (calling all BLINKS!), this half-documentary, half-performance film gives K-Pop lovers the world over a glimpse behind the scenes at their favorite quartet. Even if you’re not familiar (and presuming you enjoy a good, catchy pop song), it’s worth a watch just […]
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Stillwater
Matt Damon stars in this action-drama not-too-loosely based on the Amanda Knox case. When his daughter (Abigail Breslin) is jailed in France for allegedly murdering her girlfriend, dad comes to the rescue. But the real charm of the film (written and directed by Spotlight’s Tom McCarthy) is that it’s calm […]
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Jungle Cruise
It’s a year late, sure, but this Disney ride-based actioner is, for the most part, worth the wait. Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson lead the way in what winds up being an entertaining (though not entirely family-friendly) romp. It’s more violent than it needs to be, more convoluted than it […]
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Ride the Eagle
New Girl’s Jake Johnson co-wrote and stars in this quirky, quarantine-filmed indie about a man whose estranged mother (Susan Sarandon) left him an inheritance on the condition that he finish a to-do list she created for him. D’Arcy Carden and J.K. Simmons co-star. It’s pleasant and endearing and uplifting— like […]
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Jolt
Kate Beckinsale kicks ass and takes names in this frenetic film that will instantly bring Jason Statham’s Crank to mind. She’s a woman with chemically-induced anger management issues who needs to wears a shock vest to calm herself down, but when her boyfriend is murdered, she goes on a rampage. […]
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The Last Letter from Your Lover
Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones headline this dual-period romance about women finding love in their own times. It’s based on the sappy novel by Jojo Moyes, and despite straddling the thin line between treacle and genuine emotion, it never really goes astray. Calling it an elevated and evolved Hallmark movie […]
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How It Ends
As hipster and indie as they come, this efficient (82 minutes) film, shot during the height of the pandemic lockdown in Los Angeles, feels less like a cohesive movie than it does a series of excuses for filmmaker Zoe Lister-Jones to feature her buddies (Fred Armisen, Nick Kroll, Olivia Wilde) […]
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Die in a Gunfight
Highly stylized and very efficient, this Tarantino-lite tale of a forbidden romance between the 20s-ish children of two rival patriarchs isn’t exactly ground-breaking, but Diego Boneta and Alexandra Daddario light things up, and there’s enough going on in the cinematographic side of things to make it worth a watch. It’s […]
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