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The Fabulous Four
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If you're a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you're typically cast as Batman’s sidekick or a WWII veteran who escapes from assisted living (Michael Caine), God or a grieving father (Morgan Freeman), a brilliant psychotherapist or Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford),...
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The Last Breath
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Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And “The Last Breath” is a cheesy new thriller that is even dumber than a real shark. Not that it features any real sharks — the predatory creatures here...
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The Girl in the Pool
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The suburbs are hell. That's what the movies keep telling us. Perfect nuclear families living in their McMansions are often anything but perfect. It's not exactly new cinematic territory, but it's a well that gets tapped often because it's just...
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Dìdi (弟弟)
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It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to discover my initial gut reaction might have been a bit too harsh. When I first watched Sean Wang’s emotionally brutal coming of age film “Didi” at Sundance—where it...
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Retrospective: Jean-Pierre Melville and the Cinematic Hitman
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When thinking about the present resurgence of the cinematic hitman, it’s difficult not to immediately think about the legacy of Jean-Pierre Melville. My thoughts on Melville’s impact on the stock character have been percolating through several critics’ mentions of the...
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New To Streaming: La Práctica, Kill, Starve Acre, Nothing Compares & More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah) Bad Boys: Ride...
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Amman 2024 Review: MY SWEET LAND, And The Usefulness Of Having Dreams
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My Sweet Land of Sareen Hairabedian was one of the stronger films in a small but mostly strong feature documentary competition section of the 2024 Amman International Film Festival. The film gained not only the International Film Critics Fipresci Award...
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THE GIRL IN THE POOL Exclusive Clip: Freddie Prinze Jr. Goes Off The Deep End in Thriller
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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Monica Potter star in a domestic thriller The Girl in the Pool. It is a reunion of the two stars who first acted together in the rom com Head Over Heels in 2001. Here they play husband...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS, A Plucky Podcaster Hunts A Serial Killer In Her Hometown
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A true crime podcaster heading home for Christmas finds herself in the middle of a murder spree that she has to solve before she becomes the next victim in Alice Maio Mackay’s Carnage for Christmas. Mackay’s latest feature marks her...
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Survival of the Fittest: Anamaria Vartolomei Joins Laura Wandel’s “L’Intérêt d’Adam”
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Earlier last month we reported that actresses Léa Drucker and Noémie Merlant were going to topline Laura Wandel’s highly anticipated sophomore feature, L’Intérêt d’Adam. We now learn via the Cineuropa folks that Anamaria Vartolomei will instead take the role that...
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