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FILM REVEIW: Stream
Iconic Events: Horror. 114 minutes. Tim Cogshell From the team behind the “Terrifier “flicks comes “Stream,” the next iteration of the bloody, practical effects series that ups the horror, bringin
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Film Review: The Furious
A relentless actioner featuring a spectacular cast of expert martial arts performers
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SUNDANCE FILM REVIEW: HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!
Actress Rinko Kikuchi shines in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s vaporous Sundance farce about grief, renewal and dance.
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FILM REVIEW: RENTAL FAMILY
Brendan Fraser stars as an American adrift in Japan who finds purpose by supporting Tokyo residents with unique social dilemmas
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FILM REVIEW: THE SECRET AGENT
A knockout political thriller of remarkable insight and sensitivity.
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FILM REVIEW: LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS
In this Adult Animated Farce, Real-Life Couple Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese Launch Sex-Positivity and LGBTQA+ Affirmation to Infinity and Beyond
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FILM REVIEW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE
A Carefully Curated Biopic About a Carefully Curated Life
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FILM REVIEW: AFTER THE HUNT
Despite Julia Roberts’ Committed Performance, This Would-Be MeToo Thriller Mostly Raises Questions About Itself
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FILM REVIEW: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Maestro of American Carnage Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is the Film of Our Times
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TOMATO SLAM, PART 1: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, A LEGACY IN SEARCH OF COMMERCIALITY
In Which Our Resident RottenTomatoes Certified Panel Jousts Over the Commercial Viability of Being An Acknowledged Modern Master of the Cinematic Arts
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FILM REVIEW: TERRIFIER 3
It’s hard to top the cosmic gorefest of its predecessor, but this slasher sequel sure tries.
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FILM REVIEW: MOTHER OF ALL LIES
Truth and Consequences: Asmae El Moudir’s Remarkable Experiment “The Mother of All Lies”
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FILM REVIEW: TOKYO COWBOY
Cowboy BeBop: Marc Marriott’s “Tokyo Cowboy” Dares to Be Gentle
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FILM REVIEW: PLAYING WITH FIRE
Powerful documentary details harrowing ordeal of women in the U.S. Fire Service.
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FILM REVIEW: ALIEN: ROMULUS
The Alien franchise goes back to basics…for better and for worse
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FILM REVIEW: DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman suit up to save Marvel from itself
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FILM REVIEW: THE IMAGINARY
In this imaginary friend story, the kid takes a backseat to the fantasy characters.
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FILM REVIEW: INSIDE OUT 2
Which emotion will this long-awaited Pixar sequel evoke: Anxiety or Relief?
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FILM REVIEW: THE FALL GUY
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in David Leitch’s ode to stunt performers and old school Hollywood stars
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FILM REVIEW: GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
Plenty of ghosts but little humor in this loud, frantic, and dull sequel
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FILM REVIEW: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Humans mutate into animals in this French allegory about Covid…or maybe bigotry…or queer acceptance
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FILM REVIEW: SPACEMAN
Adam Sandler is lost in space in Chernobyl director Johan Renck’s technically accomplished snoozer
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FILM REVIEW: LISA FRANKENSTEIN
Diablo Cody channels Tim Burton in Zelda Williams’ derivative horror comedy
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FILM REVIEW: THE MARVELS
A breezy superhero romp is crushed by the heavy machinery of the MCU
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FILM REVIEW: SHE CAME TO ME
Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, and Marisa Tomei star in a near-insufferable quirkfest
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FILM REVIEW: ELEMENTAL
A woman made of fire falls for a man made of water, in Pixar’s great-looking but ridiculous rom-com
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FILM REVIEW: ERNEST & CELESTINE: A TRIP TO GIBBERITIA
This long-awaited sequel to the Oscar-nominated Ernest & Celestine is a lovely kids tale hiding bold ideas
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FILM REVIEW: THE SEEDS OF VANDANA SHIVA
Meet the eco-feminist pioneer and anti-GMO activist you should already have heard of by now.
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FILM REVIEW: THE BEANIE BUBBLE
Zack Galifianakis is Beanie Baby creator Ty Warner in this colorful takedown of corporate greed
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FILM REVIEW: TALES OF BABYLON
Colorful characters and locations keep this British Pulp Fiction imitator from becoming too stale
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FILM REVIEW: STAY AWAKE
Small-town misery and addiction pervade Stay Awake, but it finds optimism in brotherly bonds.
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FILM REVIEW: WONDERWELL
Carrie Fisher’s final performance, as a blunt-talking good witch, feels appropriately magical.
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FILM REVIEW: JAZZTOWN
A documentary made by and for people who love Denver’s jazz scene may not offer much more for others.
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FILM REVIEW: TRAVELING LIGHT
Tony Todd reunites with his Candyman director to play an Uber driver in the early days of COVID
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FILM REVIEW: TONIC
One bad night in Dallas’ Deep Ellum district drives a broke pianist to desperation.
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FILM REVIEW: YELLOW BIRD
Multi-hyphenate Angus Benfield lacks the directorial instincts to do his own lead performance justice.
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FILM REVIEW: THE COUNTRY CLUB
Caddyshack has nothing to fear from this unfocused comedy of class disparity and golf.
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FILM REVIEW: ONE FOR ALL – THE DJ CHRIS VILLA STORY
A nice, clean-living DJ is clearly talented, but not especially interesting outside the club.
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FILM REVIEW: DISCONTINUED
Laurence Fishburne’s son Langston proves as adept as dad in guiding characters through a simulated reality.
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FILM REVIEW: WILD BEAUTY: MUSTANG SPIRIT OF THE WEST
(IMAGE: Winterstone Pictures) Rating: 3 out of 4 While making her 2020 film, Black Beauty, in the Onaqui Mountains of Utah, director Ashley Avis became aware of the startling way wild horses were being managed (or misman
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FILM REVIEW: MY SISTER’S WEDDING
Amiable stress-based comedy of nuptial complications just needed to be funnier.
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STREAMING REVIEW: BACKWARDS FACES
A multiverse movie on a micro-budget is one of the year’s best.
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FILM REVIEW: THE GREEN OAK GUARDIAN
An actor tries to impress an indie comics creator, in a story that would work better in the ’90s.
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FILM REVIEW: BURT REYNOLDS – THE LAST INTERVIEW
An hourlong final interview by the icon, with some unnecessary added padding to make it a movie.
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STREAMING REVIEW: BAD ROMANCE
This hipster noir spoof can’t survive its obnoxious lead character
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FILM REVIEW: DEATH LETTER BLUES
Southern Gothic and moody magical realism makes for a sultry crowd-pleaser.
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FILM REVIEW: KNIGHTS OF SWING
Formulaic band-making-good period piece is inoffensive but overlong.
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STREAMING REVIEW: UNCONFORMITY
Geologist meets rancher in the desert, and it’s best when not much ensues.
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FILM REVIEW: IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR
A riff on Scream with a Santa killer is ultimately more amateur than inspired.
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FILM REVIEW: HAPPY FKN SUNSHINE
Profanity-laden Canadian comedy deftly balances gloom and giggles
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FILM REVIEW: AN AMERICAN BALLET STORY
The story of the Harkness Ballet unfortunately sidesteps the more colorful details for dry exposition.
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FILM REVIEW: YOU RESEMBLE ME
The biopic of a real-life alleged terrorist is best when it veers away from strictly factual reenactment
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FILM REVIEW: THE FABELMANS
Spielberg’s Most Personal Film Actually Isn’t, But It Lives on a Fascinating Spectrum
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FILM REVIEW: MURDER, ANYONE?
Self-referential comedy about scriptwriting feels like an overlong improv sketch gone wrong.
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FILM REVIEW: A NAME IN YOUR BOOK
(IMAGE: Allen Ling Music) An AllenLingMusic.com Release. 2022. 6 mins. Grade: 3 out of 5 Heartbreak and learning to let go are the themes of writer/producer and performer Allen Ling’s trilogy of short films, each shaped
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FILM REVIEW – THE DIVINE PROTECTOR: MASTER SALT BEGINS
The Japanese cult Happy Science tries to start a faith-based franchise all its own
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FILM REVIEW: THE ACCURSED
(IMAGE: Screen Media) A Screen Media Release, 2022. 96 minutes. Horror/Thriller Grade: 3 out of 5 A curse is at the center of The Accursed — it happens in the prologue of this effective horror-thriller which, while walki
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FILM REVIEW: 8:37 REBIRTH
Two Canadians linked by a childhood crime try to lose themselves in their individual obsessions
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FILM REVIEW: EVERYBODY DANCE
An inspiring documentary about special-needs kids getting their ballet on
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FILM REVIEW: I’LL FIND YOU
A director of ’80s comedies makes an unlikely comeback with this WWII romance
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STREAMING REVIEW: THE VALET
Samara Weaving shines in Hulu’s new comedy vehicle for Eugenio Derbez
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FILM REVIEW: TAKE THE NIGHT
Atmospheric kidnapping prank-gone-bad caper offers little beyond the atmosphere
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FILM REVIEW: FORBEARANCE
Of all the movies about terminal cancer ever made, this is certainly another one.
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FILM REVIEW: LOVE IN KILNERRY
The location’s the real star in this tale of small-town folks becoming suddenly horny.
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FILM REVIEW: NOT A TAME LION
Documentary on gay Catholic scholar John Boswell focuses more on personality than argument.
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FILM REVIEW: UNBOXED
A strong lead performance gets sandwiched in the middle of an otherwise uninspired Halloween riff.
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FILM REVIEW: ELVIS
Baz Luhrmnann’s exhilarating, frustrating, impossibly ambitious biopic is everything you imagined — and feared.
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STREAMING REVIEW: STALKER
Effectively enervating three-character suspense offers up a truly loathsome villain
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FILM REVIEW: TERROR ON THE PRAIRIE
Michael Polish-directed revisionist western offers grit, suspense and a throwback ’70s style.
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FILM REVIEW: PEACE BY CHOCOLATE
In a true immigrant success story, Canada claims the American dream
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FILM REVIEW: WHAT IS A WOMAN
Matt Walsh gender doc preaches to the choir but raises provocative questions.
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FILM REVIEW: CORRECTIVE MEASURES
The Existential Sorrow of Bruce Willis at Twilight Finds a Touching Home in Sean O’Reilly’s Caged Supervillain Yarn
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FILM REVIEW: JUST AN ILLUSION
Some great footage of years spent on a boat, but little idea of what to do with it.