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Sunday, August 29, 2021

Urban Legend: CANDYMAN

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Nia DaCosta’s Candyman movie takes the 1992 original’s subtext and flattens into the surface text. Gone are the creeping insinuations and c...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Game Theory: FREE GUY

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Free Guy is nakedly manipulative nonsense pop filmmaking—but it works on its own terms. It helps that it’s not exactly the movie it appears...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Furred Responders: PAW PATROL: THE MOVIE

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PAW Patrol: The Movie is strictly kids’ stuff, and that’s what’s refreshing about it. Watching the feature film adaptation of a long-runnin...
Monday, August 16, 2021

In Bloom: THE WHITE LOTUS

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Writer-director Mike White knows wealth is a poison. The ways privilege infects a mind and soul has been the background hum of his work over...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Call of the Mild: JUNGLE CRUISE and VIVO

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Jungle Cruise is a throwback to a throwback to a throwback. It’s Jaume Collet-Serra’s Stephen Sommer’s Steven Spielberg’s homage to adventu...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Bad Blood: THE SUICIDE SQUAD

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James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is better than David Ayer’s 2016 adaptation of DC’s Dirty Dozen riff to which the new movie is a combo seque...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Head Games: THE GREEN KNIGHT

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As an Arthurian legend, the English lit staple Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a chivalric stress test. It takes the self-professed weak...
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