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Bugonia Review: Bees, Aliens, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ So-So ‘Save the Green Planet!’ Riff
Bugonia sits in the corner of alien cinema that I almost always find irresistible, then keeps asking whether it even wants to be an…
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Roofman Review: Channing Tatum Hides Out in a Toys “R” Us in Derek Cianfrance’s Soft Crime Drama
Roofman is the kind of “they don’t make them like this anymore” adult caper that suits Channing Tatum better than almost anything. He dials…
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Jay Kelly Review: Noah Baumbach’s Metatextual Ode to George Clooney Ebbs and Flows
Jay Kelly is Noah Baumbach at his most openly sentimental, a movie about a movie star in late middle age looking back at the…
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Eternity Review: Elizabeth Olsen’s Afterlife Rom-Com Is Charming, but Conventional
Eternity has a sweet, sentimental charm that fits David Freyne’s A24 rom-com mold, then asks a clever what-if of the afterlife. When you die,…
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No Other Choice Review: Park Chan-Wook’s Black Comedy Starts Really Strong but Slowly Loses Steam Over Time
No Other Choice finds Park Chan-wook in a sharper comedic register than usual, a black comedy that keeps tipping toward farce while tracking a…
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Love, Brooklyn Review: André Holland Navigates Two Romantic Relationships in Rachael Abigail Holder’s Light Debut
Love, Brooklyn starts light on its feet and mostly stays that way. I liked watching André Holland drift through the borough as Roger, a…
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In Your Dreams Review: Netflix’s Latest Animated Adventure Is Plain and Clumsy
Netflix’s animated feature In Your Dreams reaches for a four quadrant crowd and lands in a tonal tug of war. The center is a…
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Nouvelle Vague Review: Richard Linklater’s ‘Breathless’ Ode Mostly Works
I went into Nouvelle Vague expecting a curio and walked out with a time machine that mostly works. Richard Linklater is not trying to…
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Crossing Delancey Review: Joan Micklin Silver’s Underrated 1980s Rom-Com Classic
Crossing Delancey is the kind of romantic comedy that remembers what adulthood feels like. Joan Micklin Silver builds a world so specific that it…
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Die My Love Review: Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson’s Hot Mess Chemistry Envelops Lynne Ramsay’s Surrealist Film Adaptation
The highs in Die My Love are undeniable, and the lows are confusing. Lynne Ramsay adapts Ariana Harwicz’s novel with a bold, fevered intensity,…
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The Luckiest Man in America Review: Paul Walter Hauser and Walton Goggins Recreate an Infamous 1980s Taping of ‘Press Your Luck’
The Luckiest Man in America has a hook that practically sells itself: the real 1984 Press Your Luck taping where contestant Michael Larson figured…
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The Baltimorons Review: Michael Strassner and Liz Larsen Wander Baltimore in Jay Duplass’ Christmas Eve Dramedy
The Baltimorons sits in that lovely corner of holiday movies where the season is cold, the people are messier than they want to admit,…
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Honey Don’t! Review: Ethan Coen’s ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Follow-up Sorely Underwhelms
Honey Don’t! (2025) is the clearest proof yet that Joel and Ethan Coen really do their best work together. Where Joel Coen’s The Tragedy…
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Blue Moon Review: Ethan Hawke Leads Richard Linklater’s Boozy Old-Broadway Biopic
Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke reunite for Blue Moon (2025), a compact character study that plays in similar fashion to their collaboration nearly 25…
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The Twits Review: Netflix’s Latest Roald Dahl Adaptation Lacks the Imagination of Its Predecessors
Netflix’s Roald Dahl push has produced a few genuine bright spots, from Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar shorts to the enduring…
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The Bad Guys 2 Review: Dreamworks’ Gorgeous Animation Doctors up a Hollow Sequel
The Bad Guys 2 keeps the zippy, sketchbook energy that made DreamWorks Animation’s first film easy on the eyes, then stalls once the heist…
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The ‘Burbs Review: Joe Dante’s Paranoia Fueled Suburban Nightmare Still Rules Decades Later
Joe Dante’s The ’Burbs is the kind of suburban paranoia comedy that still plays like gangbusters. In this 1989 dark farce, Tom Hanks stars…
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Splitsville Review: Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona Star in a So-So Open Marriage Comedy
Splitsville is the better of Dakota Johnson’s two 2025 relationship comedies, a looser, livelier counterpoint to Celine Song’s Materialists. Directed by and co-starring Michael…
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The Naked Gun Review: Liam Neeson’s Latest Action Movie Has All the Jokes
The Naked Gun (2025) is the kind of spoof that lives or dies on joke density, and on that metric Akiva Schaffer mostly delivers.…
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Elio Review: Pixar’s Latest Sci-Fi Adventure Has Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
Pixar’s Elio (2025) arrives with a question baked in: what does a studio do after it has already reinvented the medium several times over.…
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Punch-Drunk Love Review: Adam Sandler and Emily Watson Find Love in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2002 Romantic Comedy
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love (2002) is the rare romantic comedy that hums like a live wire. The movie finds Anderson collapsing love and…