Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers is a fun, sexy good time that showcases star power and style.
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Alex Garland’s Civil War is more provocative exploitation film than political treatise.
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Anton and Anders discuss this documentary featured at Hot Docs 2024 on how the search for dinosaur bones links colonialism, the global bone trade, and scientific discovery.
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The Wasp and the Orchid is an intriguing first-person account of the migration crisis hitting Europe and Africa.
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Fire Tower is a pleasant, instructive film that showcases a unique occupation and the eccentric individuals that pursue it.
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Rising Up at Night has striking footage of the DRC’s capital, Kinshasa, but its editorial approach is muddled.
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Porcelain War is beautiful propaganda, but propaganda nevertheless.
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This well-meaning documentary never justifies its feature length or the specific focus of its narrative.
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The best part of the Road House remake is Jake Gyllenhaal, who makes his bouncer-warrior another one of his dark loner characters.
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger is an interesting primer on the works of these great directors, as well as an insightful window into the artistic journey of Martin Scorsese.
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Agent of Happiness shows the process behind Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness and interrogates the very notion of what composes a happy life.
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Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast starring Lea Seydoux and George MacKay is a fascinating, messy film that imagines a captivating romance and an intriguing, if not entirely credible, future.
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Albert Brooks’s film is an amusing, if ultimately unsatisfying, comedy about what happens after death.
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Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ Late Night with the Devil has a brilliant stylistic conceit that makes it a compelling take on the found-footage horror subgenre.
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Joseph: King of Dreams should enjoy heavy rotation among families who want to show Bible movies to their children.
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The narrative surrounding its Oscar win and its reputation as a crime flick have come to mask what a remarkable work The Departed is.
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Retelling a Sami legend, Nils Gaup’s Pathfinder is both an act of cultural preservation and a thrilling action-adventure.
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Anton and Anders discuss the ideas and impact of the film scholar David Bordwell, who recently passed away.
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Sydney Pollack’s Best Picture winner feels like a film of a different age, and is all the better for it.
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John Adams is smart about politics and history but also has a careful eye for friendship and marriage.
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