Aubrey Plaza plays it straight in this compelling and effective crime thriller – and comes up with her best performance to date.
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James Ponsoldt’s latest is basically a gender-swapped ‘Stand by Me’, but it lacks everything that makes a good coming-of-age drama.
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This high school comedy/drama was an unexpected hit with teens in 1982. What lessons can it teach Gen-Z 40 years on?
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Canvas,’ ‘Tin Can,’ ‘My Favorite Girlfriend,’ and more new straight-to-VOD fare.
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With a new follow-up novel and 4K edition on shelves, we look back at the various homages, rip-offs and bastardized re-imaginings of Michael Mann’s magnum opus.
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Vittoria De Sica’s 1970 Oscar winner is a wrenching (and sadly timely) portrait of slowly creeping fascism.
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Over the course of two movies and a handful of TV episodes, Dan Trachtenberg has demonstrated he’s a sure hand at delivering lean, genre-heavy franchise entries. Trachtenberg’s first feature, 10 Cloverfield Lane, was a tight thriller nominally connected to Matt Reeves’ Cloverfield. Trachtenberg’s latest, Prey, is a similarly impressive entry for the Predator franchise. Prey […]
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The ensemble comic mystery is full of dynamic performances and memorable dialogue, even if it never quite pulls together.
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With three collaborations (and another near-miss), the actor and the filmmaker teamed up at key points in both of their careers.
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‘Nope’ has prompted comparisons to Shyamalan’s alien invasion flick, released 20 years ago – both as a compliment andas an insult.
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After winning an Oscar and achieving the biggest hit of his career, Steven Soderbergh chose to bite the hand that fed him. Here’s how that panned out.
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Robert Altman met Raymond Chandler and took no prisoners in this 1973 masterpiece, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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