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Went into Animals completely blind, not realizing Ben Affleck’s latest directorial effort was a straight-to-Netflix riff on Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, arriving just…
Kinda exactly what you'd expect from a straight-to-streaming hybrid of The Silence of the Lambs and Prisoners, The Whisper Man is a movie that…
Don’t Say Good Luck isn't the typical material Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions concerns itself with, but it does fit into an increasingly apparent…
It's always nice to see Wagner Moura and Greta Lee on screen, even when the movie surrounding them isn't particularly good. Moura has been…
Netflix's track record with romantic comedies has been a bit rough over the last decade, to put it mildly. More often than not, they…
You could certainly do way worse when it comes to straight-to-streaming teenage comedies than Happy Madison's latest Netflix release Roommates, Sadie Sandler's first turn…
It would be easy to dismiss The Rip as a January straight-to-streaming action thriller if it did not come with this kind of star…
Netflix has built a steady assembly line of soft rom-coms over the past few years, and People We Meet on Vacation fits the template…
Wake Up Dead Man is the darkest and most layered entry in Rian Johnson’s series, a knotty whodunit that swaps glass palaces for a…
Jay Kelly is Noah Baumbach at his most openly sentimental, a movie about a movie star in late middle age looking back at the…
Left-Handed Girl marks a return to the director’s chair for Shih-Ching Tsou more than two decades after co-directing Take Out, and the lineage is…
Marriage Story was anointed in 2019 as one of the great films about divorce for a reason. It is Noah Baumbach’s most widely seen…
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar keep their hot streak going with Train Dreams, a frontier drama that does not chase incident so much as…
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…
I went into Nouvelle Vague expecting a curio and walked out with a time machine that mostly works. Richard Linklater is not trying to…
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein hews closely to Mary Shelley, for better and for worse. It is a long running passion project, and it makes…
Who Killed the Montreal Expos? faces the ugliest truth in professional sports: relocation feels like a civic death. The Netflix documentary opens on the…
Netflix’s Indonesian zombie thriller The Elixir is built on a sturdy if familiar setup: an estranged family is forced back together as a zombie…
Edward Berger trades battlefield thunder and papal intrigue for the neon haze of Macau in Ballad of a Small Player, and the downsizing mostly…
Kathryn Bigelow has always been at her sharpest when she corrals national anxiety into procedural pressure cookers like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark…
What lingers most about The Perfect Neighbor is not only what it says about Stand Your Ground laws, prejudice, and the line between fear…