Alex Garland’s Civil War is an ideologically messy, but undeniably novel bait and switch.
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Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man is uneven in ways similar to other debut features. While the star, co-writer, and director is able to create some dazzling images, powerful subtext, …
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The best film in the Omen franchise since… well, the first… Omen, this prequel resurrects the series and brings it to new heights in the process.
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Loud, silly, and satisfying, Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire continues the Mosnterverse franchise with giddy, destructive glee.
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The weakest film in a disjointed, but usually likeable franchise by a wide margin, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a cynical, shallow, hopeless bit of filmmaking that doesn’t care about having …
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Road House, a remake of an 80s testosterone fuelled action picture that has maintained cult status for decades, is dumb as a box of rocks, and I’m positive that fans …
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An effectively eerie and sometimes shocking bit of religiously coded paranoia horror, Immaculate treads on familiar hallowed ground, but does so with confidence and competence.
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Director, writer, star, and “documentary subject” Cody Lightning takes a simple storytelling premise viewers already know and turns it into something hilariously personal with his behind the scenes mockumentary Hey, …
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A work of great intensity and paranoia, German filmmaker Ilker Çatak’s The Teachers’ Lounge takes an already emotionally taxing and often thankless job in modern society and pushes things to …
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Origin, the latest film from writer-director Ava DuVernay, is an artful and purposeful mess. And I mean mess in a good way.