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She's Allergic to Cats
(2016)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It's certifiably not for everyone -- but to a very select few, this will be a satisfyingly stranger pedigree of midnight movie.
Posted Apr 13, 2020
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Tigertail
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Touching, gorgeously filmed, and thoughtful about the ways we're formed by all the things we don't say as much as the things we do, it's an impressive first film from the Master of None co-creator.
Posted Apr 13, 2020
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Love. Wedding. Repeat
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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A near-terminally bland serving of romantic-comedy casserole that, in flashes, teases that it might become something marginally more appealing before instead reneging on the offer.
Posted Apr 13, 2020
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We Summon the Darkness
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It's necessary to first acknowledge Daddario, given that her devilishly playful, dagger-darting turn in We Summon the Darkness is both the best she's ever been and the biggest reason to see this otherwise-adequate Satantic Panic midnighter.
Posted Apr 13, 2020
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Sea Fever
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It's difficult not to wonder if Sea Fever was designed in some laboratory for our frightening, germaphobic times. Alas, it's nothing more sinister than good writing.
Posted Apr 13, 2020
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The Lodge
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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The Lodge, from Goodnight Mommy codirectors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, offers Keough one of her most chilling roles yet, in a film fiendishly calibrated to reflect its star's spiritual disquiet at all levels.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Downhill
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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The adaptation carries itself like a tourist, ungainly and ultimately clueless as to the richer meaning of the filmic terrain it was so eager to occupy.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Run This Town
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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[A]mbition only goes so far, and Run This Town simply lacks the screenwriting smarts to keep up with itself.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Swallow
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It's a sharp, tricky metaphor, and one that lodges uncomfortably in your throat for days after.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Spenser Confidential
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Berg's direction is kinetic and eye-popping, even if the criminal conspiracy theory Wahlberg's punch-drunk Spenser uncovers will feel overly familiar to any fans of the genre.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Blow the Man Down
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Cole and Krudy offer their performers a mightily impressive showcase-even if it's the scale of their own alchemic work behind the camera that lingers longest in memory.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Bacurau
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It's an early genre standout in this most weird of years and well worth the price of a virtual ticket-especially at a time when most independent movie houses are badly hurting.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Crip Camp
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Crip Camp, with a breezily laconic flow, regales its audiences with inspiring and often humorous tales of what went on at the camp...
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Uncorked
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Piquant, precise, and charming from top to bottom, Uncorked instantly enters the pantheon of great wine movies...
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Slay the Dragon
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Not simply an exposé, the documentary implores its viewers to take action, shining a light on various grass-roots movements that have sprouted up in opposition to gerrymandering and the political hostage-taking that has resulted from it.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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And Then We Danced
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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In blurring the physical and emotional into a uniquely sensory experience, one in which the head and heart are thrown hopelessly out of alignment, the film is the best of its kind since Call Me By Your Name.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Coffee & Kareem
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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[H]umor is so damnably absent from this witless, noxious sludge of a comedy... that one suspects those involved may have worn out their rotator cuffs high-fiving over such an innocuous, caffeine-related pun.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always stands out most through its naturalism.
Posted Apr 04, 2020
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The Invisible Man
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It's more than meets the eye, in all the best ways.
Posted Apr 01, 2020
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Blood on Her Name
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Thoughtful, precise, and filled with foreboding, Blood on Her Name is a pulp-noir thriller of the highest caliber.
Posted Apr 01, 2020
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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This is Star Wars broken under the weight of its own importance, eating its own tail for lack of any original voices to better nourish it. It's nothing short of a tragedy.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Cats
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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A deranged freak-fantasia worth falling into for a couple of hours, if just to say you did. That is to say, it's Cats.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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The Farewell
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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What The Farewell isolates so incisively is a sense of cultural melancholia specific to the immigrant experience, a mourning for something lost in the process of existing between worlds.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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The Last Thing He Wanted
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Begins in a state of near-total incoherence and somehow meanders further from there, plunging into almost experimental territory with its choppily edited mess of ridiculous dialogue and hyper-dense plotting.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Daniel Isn't Real
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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A truly original directorial vision brought to life with visual flair and narrative verve.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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1917
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It's hard to be immersive when you're constantly calling attention to yourself, and it's impossible when your camera is more the protagonist of your film than your characters.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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The Report
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Timely and thought-provoking.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Sweetheart
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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At its heart, it is about abuse and fighting back, about rebelling despite the apparent futility of such attempts when what's threatening you has height, strength, and speed on its side.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Ordinary Love
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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The film's main appeal lies in those two lead performances, both masterclasses in how to isolate notes of beauty and grace within the mundane and minute.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Just Mercy
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Constructed with such consummate competence and care that the inevitable courtroom theatrics just about avoid veering into melodramatic pulp.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Action-cinema cheesecake that makes one Harley Quinn, played by one Margot Robbie with all the colorfully explosive force of fireworks shoved up an exhaust pipe, the star of her own show.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Clemency
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Woodard internalizes everything to give one of the great pressurized performances of the year.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Horse Girl
(2020)
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Isaac Feldberg
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An ambitious, odd project, and one that sticks stubbornly in the mind's eye.
Posted Feb 24, 2020
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Arctic
(2018)
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Isaac Feldberg
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There's an existential quality to Arctic, a tremendously moving meditation on how we persevere through near-insurmountable hardships, what it takes to keep the light from going out.
Posted Nov 23, 2019
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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What it's really is Miracle on 34th Street, with Hanks' Rogers standing in for jolly old Kris Kringle and Rhys' Vogel the nonbeliever who finds his world unexpectedly lightened through their meeting.
Posted Nov 22, 2019
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Dark Waters
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Too dour and visually one-note to rank among the director's best work, but it emotes a moral fury that feels right for this subject.
Posted Nov 22, 2019
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Uncut Gems
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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He's Icarus in a gold chain and a Celtics jersey. But that's the vertiginous, pulse-pounding thrill of Uncut Gems.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Marriage Story
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Possibly the best American film of the year.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Its expressions of what art can signify -- how much a look can carry, what power is contained in the making of an image (and who gets to make it) -- don't just resonate. They're revolutionary.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Beanpole
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Beanpole flickers with barely believed hope. It may be a lie... but there's nothing false about how these two will their way through their impossible winter with only a dream of spring to sustain them.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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First Love
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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A yakuza rom-com slash-em-up that positively vibrates with off-the-wall energy.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Joker
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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The equal of Phoenix's villain: a nasty, masochistic piece of work possessed by the notion the world must heed its lone-wolf howl, even though it has nothing to say once given the platform.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Low Tide
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It's a film that doesn't overstay its welcome but never really announces itself either.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Wounds
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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It all leads to one of the most disturbing, icky final sequences of the year, a tour de force of entomological terror that leaves enough unsaid to later linger in the subconscious.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Pain and Glory
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Banderas' performance is so towering, so finely shaded yet thrillingly unvarnished, that the film feels at many a moment ready to burst with all the raw feeling bottled up inside it.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Motherless Brooklyn
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Utimately about nothing more than Norton's vision of himself as a visionary, so unfailingly determined to make this movie that, through sheer force of ego, he has done so, and subsumed it.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Jojo Rabbit
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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Director [Taika] Waititi takes the easy way out, and his film chugs along as a surprisingly sweet coming-of-age story.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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American Son
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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A slightly behind-the-times but nevertheless compelling comment on race relations.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Terminator: Dark Fate
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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If anyone has good reason to doubt franchise resets, it's Terminator fans. This one, unexpectedly, suggests a bright future.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Rattlesnake
(2019)
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Isaac Feldberg
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The movie's as parched -- of thrills, chills, and basic narrative momentum -- as its New Mexico setting.
Posted Nov 21, 2019
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