Reviews

Smoking Causes Coughing
Smoking Causes Coughing Review

Shaggy-dog stories don’t come shaggier than this enjoyable load of old...

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Review

Okay, let’s just come out with it. It’s now clear: Tom Cruise and...

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La Syndicaliste
La Syndicaliste Review

Isabelle Huppert has been making films for over half a century and audiences...

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Elemental
Elemental Review

Pixar is a studio with proven form in telling heartfelt, impactful stories...

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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Review

Remember in The Princess Diaries when an ordinary teen discovers that her...

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Stars At Noon
Stars At Noon Review

Whether it’s the seductive Béatrice Dalle biting her lover to death (Trouble...

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Nimona
Nimona Review

Nimona is many things. She’s a rebel. She’s a punk. She’s an instigator,...

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No Hard Feelings
No Hard Feelings Review

Yes, the plot of No Hard Feelings sounds inherently silly — girl is broke,...

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Stan Lee
Stan Lee Review

Stan Lee died an icon in 2018, beloved by fans around the world for his work on...

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Greatest Days
Greatest Days Review

The music of Take That is the soundtrack to this simple story of friendship...

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Extraction 2
Extraction 2 Review

When Extraction hit streaming in April 2020, it came as a welcome action...

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Inland
Inland Review

The problem with Inland is that it can’t quite decide what it wants...

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Pretty Red Dress
Pretty Red Dress Review

For a film that combines family dynamics and gender identity with the musical...

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Flamin' Hot
Flamin’ Hot Review

Hollywood’s bizarre current obsession with corporate origin stories continues...

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Brooklyn 45
Brooklyn 45 Review

Not a prequel to Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Brooklyn 45 is a finely...

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War Pony
War Pony Review

Daisy Jones And The Six and Zola star Riley Keough steps behind the camera...

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Medusa Deluxe
Medusa Deluxe Review

Hair, it is said in Medusa Deluxe, is the “crown that you never take off”....

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Chevalier
Chevalier Review

“You are a tourist in their world,” Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr,...

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The Covenant
The Covenant Review

When the US army withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, it abandoned hundreds of...

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The Flash
The Flash Review

It’s taken – in a supreme act of Alanis-ing – so long for The Flash to...

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Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts
Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts Review

Faint praise alert! There is nothing truly hateful about Transformers: Rise Of...

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Reality
Reality Review

“I wasn’t trying to be a Snowden or anything,” says Reality Winner (yes,...

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Across The Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Review

Okay, let’s do this one last time: five years ago, Spider-Man: Into The...

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A Crack In The Mountain
A Crack In The Mountain Review

The world’s largest cave passage plays the stage to a heated debate between...

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The Boogeyman
The Boogeyman Review

In Host and DASHCAM, director Rob Savage explored up-to-the-moment fear —...

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Inland Empire
Inland Empire Review

David Lynch believes that his new film makes sense. In fact, that it makes...

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Master Gardener
Master Gardener Review

Master Gardener marks the conclusion of Paul Schrader’s loose trilogy about...

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Sisu
Sisu Review

A bit of narration at the start of Sisu makes it clear: this is gonna be some...

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Asteroid City
Asteroid City Review

Yes, Wes Anderson has — as the jibe goes — made his film again. For some,...

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