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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One thing you can say for sure about Relaxer: There will never be a gender-swapped remake of it. The story, first […]
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This time last year, Hereditary was already being heralded as the best horror film of 2018 following screenings at Sundance and […]
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Our ongoing and long-overdue reckoning with sexual abuse and harassment has inspired a new wave of cinema; not only are we […]
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The disease in Five Feet Apart, the latest romantic drama about two teens in love where at least one of them […]
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Captive State is geeky, serious sci-fi told with a straight face and no comic relief. This is essential because, like most […]
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The setting of Wonder Park, a goopy pile of trash made by a third-tier animation studio, is an amusement park called […]
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