We’ll talk about the behind-the-scenes turmoil at Fantastic Fest in another wordpile. In the meantime, here are reviews of some of […]
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“That movie seemed very pleased with itself.” That was a non-critic friend’s assessment of Kingsman: The Golden Circle immediately after the […]
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It’s immediately clear that Mother! is not to be taken literally, as it starts with a reverse time-lapse of a rotting corpse […]
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It is very long for a horror movie (135 minutes), yet covers only half of the Stephen King novel it’s based […]
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A handful of innocent sheep are stalked by a coyote at the beginning of Wind River, an intense, somber mystery-thriller set […]
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Steven Soderbergh tried to retire a few years ago, but it didn’t take. Perhaps he can relate to Jimmy Logan (Channing […]
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Annabelle: Creation is a prequel to Annabelle, which was a spinoff of The Conjuring, which was about the work of a […]
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Detroit is about one of the more unpleasant things to have happened in a city where so many unpleasant things have happened […]
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To the extent that there are James Bonds in the real world — dashing, highly skilled secret agents who can kill […]
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With Dunkirk, writer-director Christopher Nolan, most famous for his Batman trilogy but even better at mind-benders like Memento and Inception, applies his […]
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There isn’t much battle action in War for the Planet of the Apes, but it still feels like a war movie […]
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Some superhero movies have subtitles referring to the dramatic events or villains featured therein: Apocalypse, The Age of Ultron, Civil War, […]
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