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The Locarno Film Festival never ceases to surprise me. The eclectic programming makes it so that you’re never seeing two ...
The sentient, foul-mouthed food from Prime Video’s “Sausage Party: Foodtopia” return this week for a second serving of animated ferocity. The 2024 freshman season never quite justified its existence, ...
It’s been nine years since he’s seen his daughter, and he can’t walk away, making “Butterfly” a show about parents and their grown children in a complicated, clandestine game. The first pair is David ...
Worst of all, it’s only rarely even “stupid fun,” which was the hope of this critic who has seen every “Sharknado” movie and ...
The Rainmaker” is true to type, and that’s not a bad thing. Yes, it seems the casting equally values sharp jawlines and acting ability. But the worst performance sin is a certain flatness from our two ...
Here are just a few goodies that Locarno 2025 has to offer. Liu has spent the better part of three decades carving a place in ...
I’m a big Eisenberg-head. I also love Joaquin Phoenix, Willem Dafoe, Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland, Sam Jackson, Robert Pattinson, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Jamie Foxx is underrated, and ...
An Officer and a Spy” is one of Polanski’s finest pictures, which means it’s very fine indeed. The film treats the infamous ...
“The Occupant” is a strangely frustrating movie. It stays engaging through the sheer force of a committed performance that ...
Alien: Earth” alternates the deeply philosophical undercurrents one would expect from Hawley with intense action and gore that may not be seen coming. Let’s just say that you’ll get more actual ...
Ebony and Ivory” is one of the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen. Taking inspiration from Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder’s ...
The Gambler and His Cowboys” is so similar to the hit ESPN series “The Last Dance” that they could have called it “The Last Hoedown.” As entertaining as that series (about the Michael Jordan-era ...