'Booger' is captivating and incisive for its understanding of the prickliness of grief.…
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This story about a body-snatching alien also celebrates love.…
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This satanic panic documentary, in heaping blame, often offers nothing more meaningful than the hysteria it aims to document.…
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'Beautiful Beings' is a film that is raw and surreal at once, harrowing in the way a natural disaster is beautiful.…
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This bloody sex comedy is somehow still a salve to the modern queer comedy.…
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The latest season takes evangelical racketeering out at the knees with a larger-than-life, ridiculous, nasty satirical bite. …
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Both the humor and the horror make this dybbuk tale of traditions and Jewish folklore hilarious and chillingly terrifying.…
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The final season of the dark comedy asks heavy moral questions and grapples with big themes, but also cares deeply about the notion of humanity in even extreme contexts. …
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The third installment in the ‘Magic Mike’ trilogy tries to replace the magically sexy strippers of the earlier films with what it considers “real” dancers, but the attempts to “elevate” the story to “serious cinema” fails to replicate any of the earlier…
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‘Tár’ doesn’t perfectly manage its attempt to grasp the current cultural shift in how we deal with artists who abuse their power, but it’s sharper than a lot of other attempts. …
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