No matter how hard they work, Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis, and John Travolta can only star in so many direct-to-VOD thrillers […]
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If cinema is, as Roger Ebert famously put it, a machine that generates empathy, the camera is its motor. What a […]
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It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke: Three Jesus Christs walk into a mental hospital, each claiming to be […]
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Tom Hooper’s Cats announced what kind of movie it was going to be when the first trailer dropped this summer. The […]
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A title card at the beginning of writer-director Wes Miller’s Western Hell on the Border laments the erasure of the black […]
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The street drug du jour in VFW’s near-if-not-adjacent future is Hype. The hows, the whys, and the highs don’t much matter […]
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The story of Bombshell was always going to be difficult to master tonally. It’s a movie about the female employees of […]
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Back in 2001, fading action star Steven Seagal starred with rapper DMX in Exit Wounds, one of the last Seagal movies […]
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If Sequestrada were a documentary, it might be a success. Onscreen titles explain the plight of Brazil’s indigenous tribes, who have […]
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Peter Strickland has always been a filmmaker on his own wavelength, making uniquely crafted movies like Berberian Sound Studio and The […]
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When I heard that Feast of the Epiphany, the inaugural feature film from the publication Reverse Shot, melded documentary and fiction, […]
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Are we ever truly able to escape the past? The mistakes that we’ve made, opinions we’ve held, and lines that we’ve […]
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