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Misery
(1990)
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Martin Knelman
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To me, the merit of Misery was limited to the formidable acting of Kathy Bates, who would be astonishing even if Caan's wimpy performances didn't make her the winner by default.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Chris Knight
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Fiennes is clearly having a ball as the thoughtful, eccentric doctor, while O’Connell turns in a psychotic villain for the ages, and Williams as Spike provides the heart and soul necessary to bring the whole package together.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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3.5/5
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(2002)
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Jeet Heer
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This outing gives a richer sense of the characters, particularly Frodo and the monster Gollum.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/5
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Spider-Man
(2002)
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Katrina Onstad
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Spider-Man may not be revolutionary filmmaking, but when sculpted and spandexed Tobey Maguire swings from skyscraper to skyscraper shooting ropey webs from his wrists, it's pretty damn cool.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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4/5
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Toy Story
(1995)
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Chris Knight
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Toy Story and its cleverly names sequel, 1999's Toy Story 2, stand amid the great films of the 20th century not merely for their cutting-edge computer graphics but as kid-friendly entertainments.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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3/4
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Requiem for a Dream
(2000)
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Katrina Onstad
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Requiem for a Dream is often hard to watch - the visceral gore...and visual repetition work almost too well...
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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3/4
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Requiem for a Dream
(2000)
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Stephen Cole
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...[Darren Aronofsky] has somehow managed to turn Selby's road map to hell into a frequently compelling misadventure. He has done so, against all odds, with a display of cinematic daring...
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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Red Rock West
(1993)
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Shlomo Schwartzberg
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There's a lot of cleverness in Red Rock West, but unfortunately, John and Roger Dahl's inventive screenplay is undermined by John Dahl's pedestrian direction.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
(1998)
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Deirdre Dolan
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This year's follow-up is predictable but better than the original.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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3/5
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Superman
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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...Superman (the movie), much like Superman (the character), operates at the crossroads of hope and fear. It’s not as bad as some reviews would have you fear. But it’s not as good as Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies would have you hoping for, either.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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3/5
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Superman Returns
(2006)
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Vanessa Farquharson
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Superman Returns is just about everything a comics nerd could ask for: As slick as the resurrection of the Batman franchise but with the charm of the Spiderman films, and of course a bit of X-Men wit, this film embodies the term "universal appeal."
Posted Jul 07, 2025
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3.5/5
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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...if the attractive human characters do little to surprise us, the car races are a mix of astonishment and beauty, and they hold up well on the biggest of big screens, including Imax.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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2.5/5
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Jurassic Park III
(2001)
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Stephen Cole
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What a disappointment it is to report that in a film full of shocks there rests not a single surprise.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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3.5/5
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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Alfie Williams as Spike delivers a credible melange of innocence and gravitas that helps carry the movie.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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3.5/5
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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As with all the M:I movies, it’s the journey rather than the destination that matters, and this one doesn’t disappoint. Although I have to say it doesn’t quite match the summer-popcorn insanity of the last one.
Posted May 23, 2025
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3/5
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Mission: Impossible III
(2006)
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Vanessa Farquharson
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The Mission trilogy isn't trying to be about anything more substantial than blowing things up, chasing people and maybe...preventing biological warfare. Its goals may have been set low, but it sure has achieved them.
Posted May 21, 2025
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3/5
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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...the entire movie is decently done, tense without resorting to world-ending shenanigans, and striking a middle ground between humour and pathos that is difficult to define, except you know it when you see it.
Posted May 01, 2025
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2/5
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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The Accountant 2 is an uneven affair, shifting breezily between comedy and brutality.
Posted Apr 28, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
(2005)
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Chris Knight
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Revenge of the Sith may be the strongest in the series since the original -- certainly it's the darkest and coolest since The Empire Strikes Back.
Posted Apr 18, 2025
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Sinners
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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Sex and garlic and the blues. That’s Sinners in a nutshell.
Posted Apr 18, 2025
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3/4
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American Psycho
(2000)
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Katrina Onstad
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In satirizing a goofy, greedy era, director Mary Harron beats the controversial novel at its own game.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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American Psycho
(2000)
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Marcella Munro
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Harron has boiled down the bloody, hard-to-finish gore-fest of a novel into an often unnervingly humorous story.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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Scream 3
(2000)
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Katrina Onstad
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So, while it's squirmy enough at parts, and thankfully less chockablock with bodies than 2, there's little in Scream 3 that we couldn't see coming, and predictability is the only truly fatal error in a horror movie.
Posted Feb 20, 2025
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Wicked
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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The leads are excellent, and the movie knows when to pull in for a closeup that can reveal more nuanced emotion than you’d ever get from a Broadway performance.
Posted Nov 24, 2024
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Here
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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Quibbles aside, it’s a lively romp through the decades, and while an unmoving point of view might sound deadly dull, it’s actually enlivened by a technique borrowed from the graphic novel on which the film is loosely based.
Posted Nov 01, 2024
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Joker: Folie à Deux
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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But this is the overall issue with Folie a Deux. It takes good ideas and refuses to run with them, forever shying away from the big moment or the leap of faith.
Posted Oct 04, 2024
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3.5/5
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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In fact, the less you know about the Alien movies, the more you’ll enjoy what may look like original elements in this one.
Posted Aug 16, 2024
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3.5/5
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Deadpool & Wolverine
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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Deadpool made me laugh. Wolverine too, if only because he’s such an effective straight-man buffer to Reynolds’ all-id performance.
Posted Jul 26, 2024
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4/5
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Twisters
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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Sometimes lightning does strike twice.
Posted Jul 20, 2024
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3/5
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Kinds of Kindness
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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Kinds of Kindness continues Lanthimos's penchant for absurdism and stilted speech patterns, neither of which endear him to me. He is a filmmaker I will readily admire, even as his creations continue to leave me cold.
Posted Jun 28, 2024
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3/5
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A Quiet Place: Day One
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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Think of this one then as an odd Quiet Place backwater, something to keep us invested in the franchise until the next chapter arrives.
Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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Taylor-Joy is suitably angry as Furiosa, and functions as the literal driver of the plot, but it’s Dementus’ quest for power that often pushes things forward...
Posted May 24, 2024
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2/5
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Alone
(2020)
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Chris Knight
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The rest of the film, including an oddly, unsatisfyingly sudden ending, fails to find traction.
Posted May 21, 2024
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4/5
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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If, like me, you get a perverse thrill from seeing what a few centuries of neglect will do to our buildings and machinery, Kingdom will deliver. But more than that, it offers a real sense of morality as played out in a topsy-turvy world.
Posted May 10, 2024
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2.5/5
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Planet of the Apes
(2001)
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Stephen Cole
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Whereas the 1968 film was designed to make you stop and think, Burton's remake encourages its audience to run out and buy related action figure knick-knacks.
Posted Apr 30, 2024
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3/4
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Almost Famous
(2000)
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Katrina Onstad
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Almost Famous has both great music and great banter in spades; it's Crowe's most ambitious and best film yet, displaying a more assured, aggressive touch.
Posted Mar 26, 2024
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5/5
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Dune: Part Two
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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There are many moving parts in Dune: Part 2, but Villeneuve, who absorbed the novels of Frank Herbert as a teenager and has been ruminating on them ever since, proves more than equal to the task of bringing this story to the screen.
Posted Mar 01, 2024
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4/4
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Mean Girls
(2004)
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Adam Sternbergh
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Mean Girls is likely to be the smartest comedy you'll see this year. That it's also humane and slightly outraged shouldn't feel like a bonus -- it's more like a religious revelation.
Posted Jan 09, 2024
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3/5
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Flags of Our Fathers
(2006)
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Chris Knight
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Eastwood has done a service by telling the story of this photograph, little understood and dogged for years with whispers that it was a fake, a set-up.
Posted Nov 10, 2023
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3/4
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Atanarjuat the Fast Runner
(2001)
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Jeet Heer
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While the film's scenery may seem uninhabitably otherworldly, the central narrative of revenge and forgiveness has an elemental, human appeal.
Posted Nov 08, 2023
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The Exorcist
(1973)
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John Bentley Mays
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A horror film for grown-ups, paced out carefully, graced by much emotional subtlety and a spirit of intelligent questioning that never lets the viewer of any or no religious persuasion slip into complacency.
Posted Sep 29, 2023
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3/5
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Traffic
(2000)
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Stephen Cole
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Traffic is handsomely mounted and intricately conceived.
Posted Sep 06, 2023
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4/5
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Chris Knight
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The power of Murphy’s performance (and of the script behind it) is in illustrating that the man, like so many of us, was a collection of contradictions.
Posted Jul 20, 2023
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5/5
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Barbie
(2023)
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Chris Knight
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[Greta Gerwig] has crafted a film that is at once intelligent, funny, sexy and unexpectedly emotional.
Posted Jul 20, 2023
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3.5/4
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Spirited Away
(2001)
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Jeet Heer
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All in all, Spirited Away is a better animated feature film than anything to come out of Disney in the last 50 years.
Posted Jul 17, 2023
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The Matrix
(1999)
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Stephen Cole
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How could filmmakers who are so skilled and imaginative lose themselves (and us) in what feels like a college stab at Aldous Huxley metaphysics?
Posted Jul 13, 2023
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4.5/5
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
(2023)
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Chris Knight
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The wonderful thing about the screenplay... is that you can lose track of who has which half, secure in the knowledge that it’ll all make sense eventually. The movie doesn’t hold your hand so much as cuff you to itself for the ride.
Posted Jul 12, 2023
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2/5
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
(2023)
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Chris Knight
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For all its fantastic-looking robot transformations, Rise of the Beasts is a lengthy, leaden tale, barely brought to life by the spark of its fortunately lively and expressive human co-stars.
Posted Jun 07, 2023
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5/5
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
(2023)
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Chris Knight
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The film is beautiful to behold, with swooping camerawork that would be nigh impossible in a non-animated environment, and scenes so gorgeous I wanted to hit pause to enjoy their painterly composition.
Posted Jun 01, 2023
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4/5
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Fast X
(2023)
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Chris Knight
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Fast X offers such giddy, goofball enjoyment, I’d gladly return for two more if they can keep the energy flowing.
Posted May 18, 2023
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