Anders and Aren discuss one of the year’s must see films: the latest from New Korean Cinema master, Bong Joon-ho, Parasite.
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Dark Fate takes the franchise back to basics.
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Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch is a hilarious, nightmarish marvel.
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Twenty years after it launched the Prequel Trilogy, The Phantom Menace remains a pivotal film in both the Star Wars saga and the transformation of global film culture.
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Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes has a grimy atmosphere, nasty deaths, and a simmering subtext of class rage
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The second Ewoks spin-off film, The Battle for Endor, learns from the mistakes of its predecessor while relying heavily on fantasy conventions and parallels to the Original Trilogy.
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James Gray’s Ad Astra is a stunning example of science-fiction worldbuilding, even if its philosophical view of the cosmos is surprisingly reductive.
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Christine finds John Carpenter working at the height of his formal powers, transforming a ridiculous concept into a thrilling film.
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Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure shows that not all Lucasfilm Star Wars productions can capture the same magic as the Original Trilogy, though it isn’t without some interest.
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This essayistic documentary explores the city of New York in the month of August 2017 and the hopes and fears of the people in it.
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A quietly critical documentary exploring the spectacle around Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino who died in 2018.
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Earth is visually arresting, but also repetitive, which dulls its overall message.
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The Brother dig into the Star Wars Original Trilogy and focus on the expansion of the story world, Michael Kaminski’s The Secret History of Star Wars, nostalgia, and the Special Editions.
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David Gordon Green revives the Halloween films with this satisfying horror sequel that returns to the original’s strengths.
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Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix weaponize our familiarity with comic book narratives to paint a portrait of personal evil and social dysfunction.
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It Chapter Two is effective and scary if a bit muddled.
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Return of the Jedi is both a technological marvel and one of cinema’s most powerful redemption narratives.
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A rare sequel that goes in a different direction, darker and deeper, The Empire Strikes Back permanently transformed what the Star Wars saga would be.
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The Safdie Brothers continue to mine chaos and momentum in the riveting Uncut Gems.
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Terrence Malick has crafted his most political and religious work yet.
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