[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, February 27 An erotic thriller that sits on a load-bearing pillar at the center of America’s in-progress collapse, Dreams tells a small story on the largest possible canvas. A film about the ways toxic relationships skew power dynamics and corrupt good intentions, it plays with familiar tropes […]
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[Rating: Swiss Fist] In Theaters and On Digital January 30 Compressing 14 years of litigious, bureaucratic, deeply personal history into a 131-minute movie was never going to be easy, and the people behind Pike River should be commended for their attempt at just that. A dramatic exploration of the 2010 coal mining accident and its […]
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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, January 2 An exploration of grief, loss, and regret wrapped inside of a zombie movie, We Bury the Dead isn’t a bait and switch so much as a catch and question. This is a flick about the undead and a mini-apocalypse, sure, but the “creatures” in this […]
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Honest, raw, and every inch as profound as the fiction it portrays, “Hamnet” is less of a movie and more a meditation on the emotional bonds that bind us.
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‘Wake Up Dead Man’ is a blast, subverting genre expectations with one hand while examining the sociopolitical landscape of its setting with the other.
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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, November 21 About a half hour too long with a stable of songs that are only about half as good as the previous installment, Wicked: For Good lives up to its name in more ways than one. Decent but not spectacular, the Broadway sequel dazzles with spectacle […]
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A reimagining of a book into film can be forgiven for the cuts it makes, but it is the additions that hobble “Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.”
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A low-budget ‘Cloverfield’ meets ‘A Quiet Place’ mash-up with a visual gimmick that does more harm than good, ‘Scurry’ aims high and misses, but not by much.
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Superman’s story of a literal illegal alien fighting for a home and the people that sometimes hesitate to fight for him—has never landed at a better time/place.
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Misshapen, inert, and incomplete, ’28 Years Later’ feels like the bad first episode of a bigger story that’s only just getting started here.
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A 97-minute love-letter to obstinance, tunnel vision, and indignant narcissism, ‘Friendship’ is the movie 2025 deserves, and is hilarious to boot.
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‘The Luckiest Man in America’ feels like a missed opportunity, and a tease of a better movie hiding somewhere in the margins of this one.
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An odd couple dramedy with a strong thematic backbone rooted in explorations of grief and acceptance, ‘The Friend’ creeps up on you.
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‘Death of a Unicorn’ is fun, interesting, and good (enough), though shoddy CGI work and a somewhat flat performance from Paul Rudd keep it from realizing its full potential.
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[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] In Theaters and VOD on February 21 If America can repackage (Den of Thieves) or reimagine (The Town) Heat every couple of years, why can’t Scandinavia? The Quiet Ones (De Lydløse) may not live up to Michael Mann’s 1995 opus, but none do and that doesn’t really matter, because in […]
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