Over the past few years coming-of-age films have thankfully moved away from typical male-centric stories about teen boys getting drunk and […]
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The plucky, rough-around-the-edges Canadian thriller Level 16 is a Black Mirror-lite story about teenage girls being trained in a creepy, militaristic sort […]
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Many of the people seeing Captain Marvel (myself included) won’t know anything about the character going in except that she’s from […]
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In the loudly menacing The Hole in the Ground, a solid debut from Irish director Lee Cronin, young mother Sarah (Seána […]
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We’re so accustomed to stalker movies now that they can be told in shorthand. Greta is a too-efficient example of this, in […]
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A Madea Family Funeral is typical of Tyler Perry’s Madea series: excruciating and baffling with occasional flecks of bemusement at how […]
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I loved the first two animated adventures about the Viking boy and his fire-breathing friend, but How to Train Your Dragon: […]
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Despite its happy, Irish-sounding title, Donnybrook is bleak misery porn about meth and meth-adjacent Midwesterners scrambling to survive and/or kill each other. […]
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(Now in theaters and VOD.) We in the Northern Hemisphere have this image of New Zealand as Australia’s sillier, goofier neighbor. […]
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Making a horror comedy that successfully riffs on the Groundhog Day formula while simultaneously being thrilling and hilarious is no easy […]
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Fighting with My Family would be nothing more than a routine underdog sports story if it hadn’t been written and directed by […]
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Robert Rodriguez is a filmmaker best known for delivering heightened stories about antiheroes tinged with western flare and an anything-goes attitude, […]
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