Bryan Forbes’s supernatural thriller – now streaming on HBOMax and The Criterion Channel – is moody, atmospheric, messy, and fascinating.
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The new Mark Wahlberg drama has its heart in the right place… and little else.
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In his latest thriller, M. Night Shyamalan again proves himself a director who makes ~choices~.
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The latest low-budget genre quickie from producer (and now director) Randall Emmett offers up about what you’d expect: clumsy storytelling, strange casting choices, and about 15 minutes of Bruce Willis.
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From ‘Dirty Harry’ and ’48 HRS’ to ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance’ and ‘Con Air,’ the action movies of the past presented a prickliness towards matters of race that was often discomforting but frequently, refreshingly honest.
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The prestigious French festival came back with a vengeance, after sitting out its 2020 edition.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Great White,’ ‘How to Deter a Robber,’ ‘The Nest,’ and more.
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Frank Capra’s 1941 drama – now streaming on Amazon Prime Video – explores political themes and ideas that are far from unique to its time.
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The third and final ‘Fear Street’ film is, sadly, more of the same – a few good ideas, some enjoyable performances, but little in the way of follow-through.
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The new Nicolas Cage vehicle ‘Pig’ is being sold as an action-heavy ‘John Wick’ riff. It is not that movie AT ALL.
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The kindest reading of Space Jam 2: A New Legacy is that it exists only to extend the brand of NBA superstar and media mogul LeBron James. A more cynical — but likely more accurate view — is that the live-action/animation hybrid was made by Warner Bros. merely to sell merch and HBO Max subscriptions. […]
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The first sequel to “Alien,” released 35 years ago this week, pushed one of the primary themes of the series: that in an ultra-capitalist future, humans are always expendable.
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