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Review: Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet is challenging us, in a suspenseful frenzy, by interrogating what we believe “truth” really means.
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Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
Scorcese studies evil’s facade and then peeks inside. To no one’s surprise, it’s an ugly truth.
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Review: Old Dads
The film is ultimately a mixed bag of social commentary that mistakes being cranky for being compelling.
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Review: Eric LaRue
Chicago playwright Brett Neveu’s 2002 play Eric LaRue is one of the most haunting and bleak experiences I’ve had in the theater, with final moments that have never left my memory. The film version (directed by Michael Shannon, Neveu’s fellow ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre, in his feature directing debut) keeps that same […]
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Review: She Came to Me
She Came to Me chugs for 102 minutes, but Rebecca Miller’s rom-com strains to pick up steam.
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Review: PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Nothing about the sequel is anywhere near as compelling, surprising, or even as mildly interesting as the pups’ first movie, which, let’s be honest, already wasn’t Citizen Kane.
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Review: The Creator
Gareth Edwards’s The Creator is a movie about AI that is hammered, welded, and spackled together from a whole lot of other better and more coherent films.
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Review: Dicks: The Musical
Ultimately, Dicks: The Musical’s desire for cult-classic status is its biggest downfall, because that’s not how a movie procures that title.
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Review: A Haunting in Venice
A Haunting in Venice officially derails Kenneth Branagh’s rebooted Agatha Christie films.
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Review: The Nun II
The Catholic horror wheel isn’t reinvented, but the jump scares are so nonstop and occasionally clever that I was left wondering: is this the most fun I’ve had at the movies all summer?
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Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
In spite of its third-film shortcomings, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 has some genuine laughs and a healthy dose of heart.
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Review: Our Body
The political is found firsthand to be personal, here through an assemblage of intimate vignettes, and thus it becomes all the more impactful when the director joins the ranks, a stand-in for our collective body.
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Review: Dumb Money
Any cash and time moviegoers choose to spend on Dumb Money will be well invested, indeed.