I’ll say one thing for Crawl, the new gator caper clawing its way into theaters this weekend: It’s rather snappily paced. […]
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Is there such a thing as too much genre cinema? If so, then it would likely occur at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival, […]
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1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in […]
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As someone who was born a handful of months before the first Toy Story came out, the hit franchise has always […]
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Back in 1982, an independent filmmaker named Jenny Bowen made a movie called Street Music, which centered around the working-class long-term […]
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There are a lot of reasons to go after Forrest Gump (1994). It’s a long, unfocused movie about a passive character […]
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If books could always be accurately judged by their covers, the bespectacled, unassuming Ari Aster would be an accountant or an […]
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We didn’t need another X-Men movie. Ever since the raucous pastiche of the original Deadpool and the bloated, redundant X-Men: Apocalypse, […]
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As a big fat blockbuster superhero movie opening July Fourth weekend, Spider-Man: Far from Home doesn’t quite work. But perhaps that’s […]
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(Editor’s Corner is where Eric talks about overlooked gems, film history, or whatever else he wants to talk about because he’s […]
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Friends, critics, countrymen, I come to offer faint praise for Ophelia, not to bury her. See? Lifting from several of Shakespeare’s […]
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You know him — there’s one of him in every circle of loose acquaintances: the guy (or gal or nonbinary pal […]
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