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MaXXXine (2024) |
West grounds the film with the still relevant, precarious nature of (albeit mostly white) female mortality — particularly sexualized female mortality — in a landscape that idolizes and destroys it in equal measure. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Jul 05, 2024
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Black Barbie (2023) |
Thankfully, it doesn’t drift away from actual conversations in the classroom and the real world, making the last half hour of “Black Barbie” the most fulfilling part. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Jun 20, 2024
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Brats (2024) |
... It would have behooved the director, amid his own seemingly self-obsessed rant about a nearly 40-year-old moniker, to also think about the advantages he was also granted with it that eluded many others. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) |
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is thoughtful and horrifyingly accurate about how many young, independent white women move through a world they think has done them wrong somehow. - Huffington Post
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Challengers (2024) |
I think Zendaya does the best she can with all of this, but I think the movie ultimately fails her — and is just not interested in what she can do. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Apr 26, 2024
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Civil War (2024) |
All it actually does is kick up a lot of dust around controversial topics without actually examining or even adequately portraying any of them. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Apr 12, 2024
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (2024) |
There’s just not enough about this new “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” to justify its existence. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Apr 12, 2024
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Monkey Man (2024) |
Even with its flaws, “Monkey Man” stands alone as a testament to what an actor can do once he takes his career into his own hands. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Shirley (2024) |
“Shirley” had all the potential to be something better. But it isn’t. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Origin (2023) |
The contents of the book themselves deserve a much closer, more complicated study. Perhaps a documentary where these ideas could really breathe would have been more effective. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 12, 2023
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Poor Things (2023) |
Lanthimos delivers a gorgeously cinematic excursion of womanhood — albeit a white woman of substantial means and ability — propelled by a hunger for new life experiences, personal failures, tragedies and triumphs. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 08, 2023
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Saltburn (2023) |
Fennell gives us such great dialogue in “Saltburn,” but not an inspired story. Though that’s certainly fun to watch, particularly among a large theatrical audience that’s game for it, it leaves a lot to be desired. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 20, 2023
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May December (2023) |
We’re left with plaguing questions that challenge what we hold dear: our entertainment, our source of empowerment, our safety. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 18, 2023
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Thanksgiving (2023) |
It checks off a lot of boxes that have been missing from too many genre entries today. Shock value? Check. Gore? Big time. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 18, 2023
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) |
It fails to validate its existence beyond the Hollywood routine of squeezing every dollar out of a successful franchise. It doesn’t really add anything to the overall narrative. It’s just… more story. And for no reason at all. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 18, 2023
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What Happens Later (2023) |
What’s missing in “What Happens Later” is outright startling: whimsy. Or maybe it’s heart — or both? Basically, there’s something vacant behind the metaphoric eyes of the film, because there’s nothing going on beneath the surface. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 03, 2023
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The Creator (2023) |
“The Creator” asks the audience to care excessively about AI and dismiss the justifiable concerns of its human characters — even as our real-life battle against the technology rages on. Why should we? - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Dream Scenario (2023) |
A darkly funny, and often truthful, look at the rapid hysteria of our real-world cancel culture, Borgli’s latest helps cement him as a provocative and wildly entertaining voice for our times. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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His Three Daughters (2023) |
Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne astound as siblings who are stubbornly at odds with each other and whose only common ground is the impending death before them. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Solo (2023) |
Showing equal care for both the dazzling drag performances and the more delicate moments in the film, Dupuis delivers a beautiful reflection of the human spirit. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Concrete Utopia (2023) |
Concrete Utopia remains disturbingly and crushingly human. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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We Grown Now (2023) |
We Grown Now is a satisfying experience of home through a child’s eyes.
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Sleep (2023) |
Though it doesn’t stray far outside the typical ghost movie, it is proof that you don’t always have to reinvent the wheel if you have a solid story and excellent use of effects. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Fitting In (2023) |
Fitting In is an at-times hilarious and consistently engrossing look at a flawed but earnest teenage girl in the process of redefining her new normal. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
Triet masterfully turns our attention from potential crime-solving to the inner workings of two imperfect people and one complicated marriage. It’s absolutely riveting. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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The Teachers' Lounge (2023) |
The film is a taut, fascinating drama about the hills we choose to die on. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Woman of the Hour (2023) |
Woman of the Hour isn’t a great movie. It’s a film about a lot of things that don’t always come to fruition. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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American Fiction (2023) |
It ultimately feels like it wants to be a broad comedy about race, yet wholly uninterested in what it wants to say about it. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Barbie (2023) |
Is “Barbie” a fun time at the movie theater? Absolutely. Will it make you laugh, and maybe even tear up at points? For sure. Then the filmmakers, and Mattel, did their job. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) |
Amid its terrific action sequences, comedic wit and — somewhere deep within that — heart, the movie is helping to sound a much-needed alarm. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Jul 12, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
Yes, to have a Black princess in a major Hollywood film is, sadly, forward-thinking in 2023. But there is nothing innovative or reformist about what happens in this movie. - Huffington Post
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| Posted May 26, 2023
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) |
It starts out intriguing, great even, before spiraling into something bizarre and pointlessly bloated. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Apr 25, 2023
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Air (2023) |
Consider this framing all in the name of a thrilling cinematic experience that serves the main objective of every film: to tell a great story. And “Air” is a riotous, worthwhile and surprisingly heartfelt film that does just that. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Apr 05, 2023
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Creed III (2023) |
A fascinating film from a new director who seems unafraid of moments of teary defeat that manifest into something far more introspective and self-nourishing — even when that’s between two brawny Black men at odds with each other and themselves. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
If there is some kind of allegory on violence that is supposed to be going on in “Knock at the Cabin,” the movie and its story are certainly not smart enough for it to come to fruition. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 21, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) |
Tatum, whose stripper past first inspired the character, looks more comfortable than ever in a role that, like the film, is in equal parts funny, playful, sexy and sincere — despite being in the business of fantasy. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 21, 2023
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Mamacruz (2023) |
A simple yet masterful feat all around. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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The Persian Version (2023) |
A funny, soulful journey across language and time that also offers an illuminating look at the complexities of motherhood and identity. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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birth/rebirth (2023) |
Truly haunting stuff. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) |
This is one of those instances where a film thoughtfully reexamines previously established truths about a musician’s legacy so fervently that it completely upends you. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Fair Play (2023) |
Has the distinction of being both slick and thorny at the same time — and utterly arresting. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Judy Blume Forever (2023) |
You’re not expecting this documentary detailing the storied life and impact of beloved YA novelist Judy Blume to touch you the way it does, to the point you’re on the verge of tears. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) |
“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” becomes an unhinged freefall that aims for all laughs and exactly zero substance. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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Not Okay (2022) |
As deft as “Not Okay” is for realizing the virtually vampiric nature of how trauma is absorbed in today’s culture, it completely avoids engaging with the role race plays. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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X (2022) |
It's crass and ghastly, with an on-the-nose premise fit for the often- sensationalist slasher genre and the salacious X-rated cinema embedded in this story. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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The Whale (2022) |
The movie might largely be remembered for being somber, an emotion that stays at the forefront of the narrative, but it’s optimism that buoys its ending. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Halloween Ends (2022) |
“Halloween Ends” is a bummer. And everything about it makes it seem like it’s willing to go. We should let it. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022) |
Hollow and disappointing. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
It’s easy to point and laugh at the rich, or feel a sense of vindication... But you still walk away feeling hungry. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
It makes for a profoundly empty viewing experience. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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