As a big fat blockbuster superhero movie opening July Fourth weekend, Spider-Man: Far from Home doesn’t quite work. But perhaps that’s […]
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Friends, critics, countrymen, I come to offer faint praise for Ophelia, not to bury her. See? Lifting from several of Shakespeare’s […]
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You know him — there’s one of him in every circle of loose acquaintances: the guy (or gal or nonbinary pal […]
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Annabelle Comes Home is part of the Conjuring franchise, but you don’t need to have seen any of those movies (which […]
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Toy Story 3 was such a perfect culmination to the series that any Toy Story 4 is going to be met […]
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Noted French pervert Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Lucy) is back with another story of a badass woman who happens to […]
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There’s something different about Chucky in the new Child’s Play remake. Originally birthed as a very creepy-looking killer doll possessed by […]
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Who gets to make country music? Who gets to define what’s authentic and what’s appropriative? These questions have dogged alt-country — […]
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Well, folks — we’re now batting two for two when it comes to summer comic book movies and their (wildly superficial) […]
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The new Shaft, starring Jessie T. Usher as anxious FBI data analyst John Shaft, is a direct sequel to the 2000 […]
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Jim Jarmusch’s films are frequently populated by richly drawn characters who move through the world at a pace that could generously […]
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Taking a cue from Disney — which makes sense, given the Mouse’s involvement here — writer-director Simon Kinberg jarringly opens Dark […]
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