Smallfoot is a light animated adventure set in a remote Himalayan village occupied by yetis, aka Abominable Snowmen (and Snowwomen), who have […]
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(Screened at Fantastic Fest; now streaming on Netflix) Continuing the Wind River cycle of movies about outsiders going to cold, sad Indian reservations […]
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David Lowery’s last movie, A Ghost Story, was about a ghost but wasn’t a horror film. His new one, The Old […]
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(Screened at Fantastic Fest; U.S. release TBA) We have Velvet Underground to thank for the title Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure […]
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(Screened at Fantastic Fest; U.S. release TBA; opens in France in January) Coming-of-age metaphors collide messily in Savage (Les Fauves), a weak-willed French […]
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(On VOD.) Keep an Eye Out is the latest absurdist lark from Quentin Dupieux, whose Rubber — about a series of murders committed […]
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Jack Black opted out of the Goosebumps sequel in order to make The House with a Clock in Its Walls, which is […]
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Assassination Nation, based on the hashtags #woke and #metoo, is an in-your-face, self-consciously edgy satire about a town called Salem that […]
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I skipped out on the big political event of the Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, […]
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Unlike the late entries in some horror franchises, The Predator doesn’t pretend any of its predecessors didn’t happen, but you don’t need […]
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Based on Darcey Bell’s novel, which must have been inspired by Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, A Simple Favor is a funny, dark-edged, […]
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It’s unlikely (I hope) that the Wershe family of Detroit will remind you of your own clan. As portrayed in White […]
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