Missing Link is Laika’s fifth gorgeously detailed work of stop-motion animation and the fourth to leave me kind of cold. Only […]
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The interesting thing about anti-abortion propaganda film Unplanned is how little it tries to persuade anyone of anything. Preaching to the choir, […]
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Hollywood continues to solve racism one bigot at a time with The Best of Enemies, a shiny, shallow trinket based on […]
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(On HBO.) Little had to be changed about the plot of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son to make it work with […]
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The title character in Hotel Mumbai is actually called the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, or the Taj for short, and it was […]
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The whole point of Pet Sematary — both Stephen King’s 1983 novel and the effective 1989 movie version — is that […]
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Despite their adventures ostensibly being aimed at kids, most superheroes aren’t children themselves. Except for the Spider-Men and occasional moments with […]
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The title character in The Beach Bum, a stoner-poet named Moondog, is the part Matthew McConaughey was born to play, and […]
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The self-cannibalization at Disney continues with Dumbo, a turgid, labored, bloated live-action remake of the 1941 animated classic with precisely none […]
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Coming-out stories have become common enough that movies are starting to tell them with nuance. The “Am I gay?” question no […]
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An apocalyptic event happens so subtly in Starfish that you almost don’t notice it. The reasons for that are probably more practical […]
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Jordan Peele, the newly minted horror auteur behind Get Out, gives us a lot to process in the early minutes of […]
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