This ‘Sopranos’ movie prequel maintains the texture and voice of the groundbreaking show while never achieving its character or story depth.
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St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein wrote and star in ‘The Nowhere Inn,’ a meta-mockumentary about the absurdity of stardom and celebrity. Full of humor and the occasional suspense, Clark and Brownstein work wonders together.
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‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ showcases the best performances of its leads’ careers, utterly wasting them on branded image propaganda.
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‘Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings’ stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
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‘No Man of God’ is not a film that Ted Bundy would have enjoyed, but it’s the one his victims deserve.
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‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ succeeds where others have faltered due to its vice-like grip on the larger Marvel formula and an embrace of genre.
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‘The Suicide Squad’ is a bloody hit. Full of humor, lovable new characters, and more action than you could ask for, ‘The Suicide Squad’ showcases the potential the original never lived up to.
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‘The Green Knight’ is ‘Excalibur’ on mescaline; it is ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ crossed with ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ It is also spectacular.
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‘Stillwater’ is a messy, unfocused tangle of a movie made only marginally watchable because of the superb work of its lead.
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Despite a strong Mark Wahlberg turn, ‘Joe Bell’ is a jumbled mess of emotions and contradictions, none of them particularly interesting or fully baked.
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At no point was my heart in my mouth – although my hand was, to cover up multiple yawns. The film was not striking in any way, shape or form.
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Josh Ruben does it again with ‘Werewolves Within.’ Based off the popular game “Werewolf,” Ruben creates a humorous whodunit spiced up in a horror setting.
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‘Zola’ is a hell of a read on Twitter, but despite great performances by Taylor Paige and Riley Keough, the film can’t quite capture the manic energy of the Twitter thread.
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‘Black Widow’ is a good time, even if it does come up short on originality and stakes for the MCU moving forward.
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Scarlett Johansson and Black Widow FINALLY get a standalone movie in the MCU and it’s five years too late. Fun action but no stakes.
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