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'Cora Bora' Review: Meg Stalter Shows Off Her Star Power in Solid Bisexual Dramedy | SXSW 2023

Cora Bora supplies welcome queer-inclusivity to an overfamiliar character archetype led by a show-stopping Megan Stalter

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'Marcel the Shell With Shoes On' Review: A24's Stop-Motion Mollusk Mockumentary Moves Your Soul

Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate’s sentient shell is more human than most of us and inspires us to strive for more.

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Them That Follow Review

This is the second time I’ve seen Alice Englert in a feature and honestly she deserves to be in more

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Kong: Skull Island Review

2005 King Kong ain’t got shit on 2017 King Kong.

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Oct 31, 2024

'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' Review: Aardman Delivers Another Smashing Wallace & Gromit Classic

Wallace & Gromit. They are Britain's finest export right next to Paddington Bear.

Oct 28, 2024

'Venom: The Last Dance’ Review: SymBrock Face their Curtain Call in Another Typical Sony/Marvel Mess

A mediocre finale to a rather lackluster superhero trilogy.

Oct 23, 2024

'Flow Review: Gints Zilbalodis’ Animated Animal Adventure Flick is a Refreshing, Near-Meow-ster Piece

Like ‘Homeward Bound’ in a biblical sense, but with no dialogue and GameCube-era cel-shaded textures.

Oct 21, 2024

'Anora' Review: Mikey Madison Slays as a Sex-Worker Who Pulls Herself up by the Stilettos

Sean Baker's Anora is a remarkable portrait of the American dreamers and go-getters of the Gen-Z kind.

Oct 11, 2024

‘Oh, Canada’ Review: Paul Schrader Dissects an Dying Director's Mortality in Soulful, Reflective Drama

NYFF 2024: A soulful look at the mortality of man, and the finest Paul Schrader has been in years.

Oct 8, 2024

‘Pavements’ Review: Alex Ross Perry Blends Fact, Fiction, and Trolling with Hilarious Experimental Music-Doc

Perry achieves the ultimate feat of having one's cake and eating it too.

Oct 4, 2024

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Review: Todd Phillips Sends the Clown to Court in Dull and Misguided Musical Sequel

Any movie that had me think write, "Lady Gaga is annoying in this," deserves a tomato to the face.

Oct 2, 2024

'Gazer' Review: Jersey Set Neo-Noir Mystery Marks Impressive Debut For Ryan J. Sloan

Has an underground 90s indie sleaziness, like a rare VHS you’d pick up at a Kim's Video store.

Sep 25, 2024

‘Saturday Night’ Review: Jason Reitman Turns ‘SNL’ History into Fan Fiction

An overindulgent production that would be better off as an episode of Drunk History or Documentary Now

Sep 20, 2024

'Never Let Go' Review: Halle Berry Survival Horror Flick Intrigues Yet Flounders its Faith-Based Themes

Fails to come up with a concrete sense of self despite starting as an enticing survival horror.

Sep 19, 2024

'Piece By Piece' Review: Pharrell's LEGO Bio Doc Kinda Clicks

Morgan Neville's Pharrell-centered docis a beautifully animated experience, despite surface-level storytelling from its subject.

Sep 17, 2024

'Heretic' Review: Hugh Grant Force Mormons to Attend His Anti-Religious TED Talk in Sharp A24 Horror

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ latest is a sharp philosophic-based religious thriller that shines in an anti-holy light.

Sep 16, 2024

‘K-Pops!’ Review: Anderson .Paak’s Delightful Directorial Debut Hits All the Right Notes

A heartwarming and hilarious father-son family comedy with a passion for K-Pop and Hip-Hop culture.

'We Live in Time' Review: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield's Electric Chemistry Sparks Mid Romantic Drama

A romantic two-hander that shows why Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are two of Britain's best actors today.

Sep 15, 2024

‘The Front Room’ Review: A Wasted Brandy Can't Save Baby Eggers Bros. Crappy Hagsploitation Horror

I should've read, "Will be written by two white dudes," when using that monkey's paw to conjure that A24 and Brandy collab.

Sep 9, 2024

‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Review: Paul Walter Hauser Serves Another Winning Weirdo Performance in Subpar Game Show Bio Drama

TIFF 2024: Another case of a "based on true events" movie that desperately needed to press its luck in its ambitiousness.

Sep 7, 2024

'Unstoppable' Review: Jharrel Jerome Tackles a Fine Performance in an Otherwise Generic Sports Drama

Sports dramas, mostly biopics, often come in similar packages.

Aug 21, 2024

'Blink Twice' Review: A Cunning Channing Tatum Shines in First-Time Director Zoë Kravitz’s Stylish Debut

Mr. WooImBouttaMakeANameForMyself is hilarious, even at his most sinister.

Aug 18, 2024

‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: Fede Álvarez redoes ‘Don’t Breathe’ in Xenomorph clothing

One of the scariest movies I've seen this year, despite being a “just decent” Alien entry.

Aug 11, 2024

‘Borderlands’ Review: What Happens When You Order ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ off Temu

A soulless video game adaptation far worse than anything Uwe Boll has ever done.

Jul 8, 2024

‘Janet Planet’ Review: Annie Baker’s hypnotic, mother-daughter portrait is a masterpiece debut

A majestic, shattering portrait that hit too viscerally close to home.

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