The latest season of 'Euphoria' so far depicts teenage trauma and brutal struggles with addiction, relationships, and violence, though can feel somewhat stifled by its own heaviness and its lack of multiple creative voices.…
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A stylized, sweet movie awash with both love and appreciation for the emotional potential of escapism.…
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A witty, marvelous achievement in subversion that forges spine-tingling new paths.…
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Advertisements Noble intentions abound in this taut, heartfelt retelling of a bombastic event drenched in troubling implications for our society’s current state of affairs. It’s a real-life story both well-suited to cinematic adaptation and bristling with relevance on various fronts — in…
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Advertisements Riley Stearns’ 2019 film The Art of Self Defense centered on a karate novice attempting to regain control of his life and finding something much deeper in the community he found. Now Stearns, who clearly has an interest in training and…
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'Speak No Evil' is an exercise in patience that rewards its viewer with a gruesome and truly nasty finale.…
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'Am I OK?' delivers an authentic and humorous depiction of the coming-of-age experience through the lens of coming out in your thirties.…
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'Resurrection' features a stunning performance from Rebecca Hall as a woman who tries to reclaim what was stolen from her decades ago as the result of an abusive relationship.…
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'All My Puny Sorrows' is a well-acted adaptation with real pain at its core, but feels overly verbose and affected in its dialogue to feel fully natural.…
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Maria Schrader’s 'I’m Your Man' approaches the concept of exploiting loneliness for profit with understanding and tenderness, while exploring the questionable aspects of replicant beings.…
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