The start of a three-week back-to-back-to-back horror trilogy, Part One finds its inspiration in teen scream flicks like, well, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, and… well, you get the idea. It’s nothing you haven’t seen before, but there’s a certain sense of nostalgia that works, and also it’s also buoyed […]
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No Sudden Move
The fact that it’s directed by Steven Soderbergh should be enough for you to drop what you’re doing and give this film your attention for two hours. If not, the cast that includes Jon Hamm, Benicio del Toro, Don Cheadle, David Harbour, Julia Fox, and Brendan Fraser as cogs in […]
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2021 in Movies: The First Six Months
THE TOP 5 1. Minari The story of a Korean family struggling to stay afloat on a makeshift Arkansas farm is a beautiful and touching bit of subdued and nuanced filmmaking. Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung has crafted a character-driven masterpiece with Steven Yeun and Han Ye-ri leading the way as […]
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America: The Motion Picture
If you’re in the incredibly rare subset of the population who smokes pot religiously, is an over-the-top U.S. history buff, and thinks Archer is the best show in all of television forever, you’re in luck. Otherwise, run far, far in the opposite direction. This rudderless, mindless, and below-juvenile attempt to […]
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The Ice Road
Just when you think there aren’t any more Liam Neeson movies left for Liam Neeson to make, along comes one more. This time, he’s an ice road trucker on a race to save trapped miners in what appears to be Canada’s answer to Siberia. Inexplicable mustache-twirling villains, low-rent visual effects […]
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Wolfgang
The first-ever celebrity chef gets his (long overdue) documentary treatment courtesy of the Mouse House and the director of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, David Gelb. In a scant 78 minutes, you get a crash course on everything Wolf, from his Austrian childhood, through Spago, and to his present day life […]
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Good On Paper
This zany screwball comedy written and starring comedian Iliza Shlesinger may, in fact, have looked very good on paper… but it lost something along the way to your television screen. Knowing it’s based on the true story of how Shlesinger was really wooed by a pathological liar certainly helps it […]
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Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
What could easily have clunked into theaters as a juvenile, cartoon violence-filled bit of ephemera instead (as with the first) delivers not only for kids but for the parents forced to tag along, too. Sure, Rose Bryne and Domhnall Gleeson are great, but it’s the sharp script and solid comic […]
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Luca
Pixar’s latest offering may not be in the same rarified air of, say, WALL-E or Toy Story 3, but it’s still dripping with the studio’s trademark charm and is elevated by outstanding animation. The story of two young Italian sea creature boys who magically become human when they set foot […]
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