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Sunday, July 24, 2022

Winners and Losers:
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER and THE PRINCESS

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A few dozen movies and TV shows in, the Marvel Cinematic Universe of colorful heroes and interconnected can-kicking narratives has basically...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

If He Can Dream: ELVIS

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Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is made with an energetically heightened reality that bursts through the cliches of the rock ’n roll biopic and the ov...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Wrong Number: THE BLACK PHONE

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There’s something particularly unseemly about a horror movie that dredges up deeply upsetting imagery and ideas only to let them wither with...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Lab Rats: SPIDERHEAD

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The animating tension of Spiderhead is in the friction between its surface and its undertow. The setting is an ocean front compound on a re...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Mad World: MAD GOD

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In the beginning of Mad God , an eye is wide open in extreme close-up. In the end, it closes. This is an inversion, since what passes in bet...
Friday, June 17, 2022

A Buzz Flight: LIGHTYEAR

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I should not have doubted the good folks at Pixar’s ability to go beyond. I walked into Lightyear , sold as a high-flying sci-fi adventure, ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Age of Extinction: JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

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Used to be, when you got to the Part 6 of your movie series it was a bunch of random nonsense with basically no one from the original involv...
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