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Harbin
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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What Harbin lacks in depth, it makes up in style.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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Bird
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Anchored by a trio of strong performances and a touch of whimsy, Bird is Andrea Arnold doing everything she does best.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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The Last Showgirl
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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The Last Showgirl is in turns an angry screed against the way women are treated in the world, especially as they age, and a bleak meditation on the solipsistic pursuit of dreams.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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Queer
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Queer is very much Cinema! in bright lights, unapologetically big and bold and gay and sexy and sad and there is always more, more, more. It’s a lot, but it’s trying to be a lot, and Queer does a lot very well.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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The Life of Chuck
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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The Life of Chuck is like It’s a Wonderful Life without the Christmas schmaltz, or The Twilight Zone with an uplifting tone.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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Without Blood
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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As a timeless tale of war, violence, and revenge, it falls flat, and however handsomely Angelina Jolie directs the film, Without Blood is less than the sum of its parts.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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Nightbitch
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Nightbitch is a fierce, funny, kind of gross film about motherhood and all the changes it wreaks on the bodies, minds, and identities of the people going through it.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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Unstoppable
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Unstoppable aims for the heart but falls short of the mark.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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We Live in Time
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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We Live in Time is so earnest and unabashed about being a tear-jerker, it feels mean to pick on it, but there’s no getting around that it doesn’t work.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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Seeds
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Seeds is equal parts ecological thriller and home invasion thriller.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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This isn’t a bad film, it’s just a busy one.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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The Crow
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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The Crow was best left undisturbed.
Posted Sep 02, 2024
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Blink Twice
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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For all the fun Zoe Kravitz is having orchestrating this chaos, she doesn’t miss when it comes to the theme, either.
Posted Sep 02, 2024
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It Ends With Us
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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It Ends With Us has lofty goals it ultimately cannot meet, and the end result is a bad film that is borderline insulting in its depiction of the very subject it seeks to explore.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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Trap
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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If you’re looking for a spoiler-free review, here it is. Is Trap good? No.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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Dìdi
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Dìdi is, like all the best coming-of-age tales, rooted in the experience of growing up, growing apart, and the painful realities of adolescence shared across generations and cultures.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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The cameos, the jokes, and Hugh Jackman’s legitimately good performance cover a lot of visual crimes.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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Twisters
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Twisters is the kind of exciting escapism that Hollywood blockbusters can provide at their best.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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Dandelion
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Dandelion is a somewhat lightweight but enjoyable film that lets KiKi Layne shine for two hours, and there are certainly worse ways to spend your time than watching KiKi Layne.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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National Anthem
(2023)
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Sarah Marrs
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It’s not all sunshine and roses, but National Anthem knows that finding oneself and first love are often a thorny path that leaves an indelible mark on those who walk it.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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Janet Planet
(2023)
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Sarah Marrs
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Annie Baker has made a beautiful, ponderous film about family, or a total waste of time, depending on your taste for slow-moving, intimate dramas about regular people.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Michael Sarnoski has perfected the trick of turning genre film into poetic cinema.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Yorgos Lanthimos has made some exceptional films, but it finally feels like it’s time for him to find a new story to tell.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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Thelma
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Thelma is a treat, the kind of sincerely thoughtful yet entertaining film that doesn’t come around very often, but when it does, it’s well worth seeking out.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Slave Play is an act of engagement, and much of Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play. is devoted to Jeremy O. Harris asking us to engage, even if, perhaps especially if, it makes us uncomfortable.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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The Bikeriders
(2023)
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Sarah Marrs
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Jeff Nichols makes The Bikeriders work on pure artistry.
Posted Jun 22, 2024
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Inside Out 2
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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There’s nothing to rival Bing Bong, but the panic attack scene is a standout moment, a reminder of what the writers and artists of Pixar can do at their best.
Posted Jun 22, 2024
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Fans of Bad Boys, fans of Smith and Lawrence, and fans of Adil & Bilall will likely find plenty to like in these proceedings, but everyone else will be left in the cold.
Posted Jun 22, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Furiosa manages to stand on its own as a worthy entry into the Mad Max saga, and it cements Furiosa as one of cinema’s greatest heroines.
Posted May 29, 2024
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IF
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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IF feels half-baked, and too cute by the other half. It’s cloying and saccharine and shamelessly punching the Pixar button to mimic real emotion.
Posted May 29, 2024
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The Fall Guy
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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The Fall Guy is an action comedy that feels like a throwback to when movies could be smart about their execution and dumb about their plot, and still be considered “good”.
Posted May 29, 2024
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The Idea of You
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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The Idea of You is sexy and romantic, but it’s also kind. It’s as if the crueler the world is to Solène, the kinder the film becomes.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Challengers
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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But Challengers falls short of its own perverse tone, never pushing the envelope as far or hard as the script signals it wants to.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Boy Kills World
(2023)
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Sarah Marrs
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As a sendup of revenge thrillers and the stoic hero so often at the center of them, it’s surprisingly sly.
Posted May 29, 2024
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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This is an astounding collection of hot people, standing around being hot for two hours.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Civil War
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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As a piece of action cinema, Civil War is nearly flawless. But as a story, it falls short.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Monkey Man
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Monkey Man is a purely entertaining revenge thriller, but it has more on its mind than punches and kicks.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Scoop
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Scoop is an entertaining examination of one of the most incredible public meltdowns in recent memory.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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On one level, Godzilla x Kong is about noise. On another, it’s about King Kong teaming up with his spiky punk boyfriend to save the world.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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It's just so frustrating to see the shape of something that could fully work as a 21st century spin on Ghostbusters, but watch it whittle down to the dullest version of itself.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Road House
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Just a real hootin’, hollerin’, bar-stompin’ good time.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Love Lies Bleeding
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Love Lies Bleeding is a mostly effective piece of pulp cinema that takes on Americana at its nastiest and most desperate.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Dune: Part Two
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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The key issues of Dune remain the key issues of Dune, but Denis Villeneuve has created a visual language for Dune that finally gives this epic its cinematic due.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Madame Web
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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This is the worst cast superhero movie in recent memory.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Argylle
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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Indoor girlies can have ONE stupid spy caper celebrating shy gals and their cat pals and the dancing madmen who occupy more fantasy real estate than people like to talk about.
Posted May 29, 2024
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The Beekeeper
(2024)
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Sarah Marrs
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It’s not NOT like John Wick but with bees.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire
(2023)
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Sarah Marrs
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Rebel Moon is a copy of a copy, dull and dreadfully boring, with nothing of its own to say.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Anyone But You
(2023)
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Sarah Marrs
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Anyone But You is the potato salad with raisins of rom-coms.
Posted May 29, 2024
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
(2023)
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Sarah Marrs
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For this one very silly adventure, Patrick Wilson makes it a good time.
Posted May 29, 2024
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The Boys in the Boat
(2023)
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Sarah Marrs
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Dads will love The Boys in the Boat.
Posted May 29, 2024
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