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North
(1994)
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Richard Schickel
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Director Rob Reiner strives too hard for the tones of a fable, but the result is far from fabulous.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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Bite the Bullet
(1975)
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TIME Staff
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The scenery is nice — mostly New Mexico and Nevada — but Brooks’ notion of staging a scene is to plant the actors in the middle of the frame and have them talk. The dialogue is not worth such attention.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The Bone Temple is part satisfying triumph, part missed opportunity, and its pluses and minuses bump against one another in jangly discord.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(2003)
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Richard Corliss
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Here is an epic with literature's depth and opera's splendor -- and one that could be achieved only in movies. What could be more terrific?
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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A Place in the Sun
(1951)
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TIME Staff
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Producer-Director George Stevens' modern version of the late Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is at once a faithful adaption of the novel, an artful job of moviemaking, and an engrossing piece of popular entertainment.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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Stand by Me
(1986)
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Richard Corliss
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Stand By Me is a shuck. It trumpets its sensitivity while reveling in coarseness.
Posted Jan 12, 2026
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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You could argue that Song Sung Blue hits every beat predictably. But isn’t that what you want sometimes?
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The Testament of Ann Lee is unimaginable with any other actress—but then again, it’s unimaginable, period, a movie that takes big chances in a culture that, most days, seems allergic to them.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The movie’s increasingly convoluted plot only detracts from the story’s crushing emotional potential.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The performances Arnett and Dern give here have a quiet, prickly grace
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Cameron’s vision is no longer the future, but a nostalgia trip, a very expensive form of deja vu. Movie magic can take many forms, but rarely is it as calculated as this, confusing awe with stupor.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The plot of Wake Up Dead Man is fatally cluttered, and the story winds up in a blur of exposition that’s not particularly clever.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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Big Top Pee-wee
(1988)
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Richard Corliss
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The film is an isolated boy’s fantasy of comradeship. It’s pretty funny too.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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The Abyss
(1989)
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Richard Schickel
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Harris and Mastrantonio do have a strong death and resurrection sequence, but long before that, one is pining for a rubber shark or a plastic octopus -- anything, in fact, out of a good old low-tech thriller.
Posted Dec 09, 2025
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Zhao doesn’t know how to take a less-is-more approach.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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[Timothée Chalamet's performance is] as flat as a ping-pong ball is round, and just as hollow, an empty sound bouncing nowhere and everywhere in the entropic movie around it.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Train Dreams is stunning to look at, the kind of film where each blade of grass, each jagged tree branch, each mini ripple of a rushing river, seems to sing out as an individual.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Life is too short for leaden fanfiction liked Wicked: For Good, an extravagant picture that’s not nearly as imaginative as it thinks it is.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The Running Man is just a slog.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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Peter Hujar's Day
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Peter Hujar’s Day captures that elusive feeling of the past catching up with the present, in a city alive with whispering ghosts.
Posted Nov 10, 2025
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Ballad of a Small Player
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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It’s all vaguely cartoony, perhaps as a way of signaling that we’re not supposed to take it all that seriously—but you also never feel that anything is really at stake.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Blue Moon is both a modest movie and a dazzling, generous work.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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White is quietly effective as Bruce, having perfected the singer’s trademark honeycomb rasp.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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Hedda
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Hedda seems more focused on its own novelty than on the emotional bones of the story.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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Dracula
(1979)
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Richard Schickel
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There is no point in retelling this tale if you are going to be stuffy about it.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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From Beyond
(1986)
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Richard Corliss
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No masterpiece here, just a bloody good entertainment. It's criticproof!
Posted Oct 19, 2025
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Good Fortune
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Good Fortune is a charming debut.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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Roofman
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Roofman is partly a lark: it’s fun to watch a clever, likable guy like Tatum’s Manchester beat the system.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is hardly full-on punishment, and in places it’s bitterly funny. But in the end, it’s an enormous relief to walk away from Linda’s problems. Our own don’t seem so bad in comparison.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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Casper
(1995)
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Richard Corliss
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Director Brad Silberling mixes rude slapstick for the kids with pop-culture cues for their parents...All jolly enough. But in its haunted heart, Casper is another invitation to kids to flirt with the idea of being dead.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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Ju Dou
(1990)
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Richard Corliss
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The story is primal, and so are Zhang’s cinema strategies.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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Hard Times
(1975)
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Jay Cocks
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Hard Times is unassuming, tough and spare, a tidy little parable about strength and honor.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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To Sleep With Anger
(1990)
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Richard Corliss
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Like Harry at his eloquent best, To Sleep with Anger is a spellbinder.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Everything about A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is stilted and odd, but I found that more endearing than off-putting.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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HIM
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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It’s the kind of movie that leaves you feeling indifferent rather than chilled to the bone, clobbered into numbness with good intentions.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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Boogie Nights
(1997)
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Richard Corliss
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Boogie Nights has panoramic ambitions... Nashville meets GoodFellas meets Pulp Friction. The film doesn’t quite get there, but it packs a wad of compelling entertainment on its road to triple-X oblivion.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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One Battle After Another is of the moment without hammering away at us with its ideas; its seriousness is the unserious kind, which makes it even more potent, in a Dr. Strangelove sort of way.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale transports you to a time and place that seems so much more glamorous than our own, and to see it all splashed out on the big screen is almost overwhelming. It’s a genteel fantasy worth leaving the couch for.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Spinal Tap II is more touching than it is laugh-out-loud funny.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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It’s a movie with a seemingly endless number of moving parts, cut with diamond precision.
Posted Sep 04, 2025
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Alexandre Desplat’s score, swelling at the precise moments when we might like to be left alone with our feelings, often feels intrusive. The grand scale of this Frankenstein is unavoidable; what it’s lacking is intimacy.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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It’s the persistent drive of the “Now what?” that makes the movie work.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Why cast Julia Roberts only to sap all the life out of her? Her scenes with Edebiri are particularly drab and circuitous.
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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The Roses
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The Roses is funny, but there’s something piercing about it too.
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The world isn’t pretty, and Lanthimos is sounding the alarm. If only he would tell us something we don’t already know.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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There’s nothing overtly dislikable about the film, and there are a handful of scenes that are beautifully written, acted, and directed. But Jay Kelly feels more sentimental than truly thoughtful.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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The Thursday Murder Club is so good-natured, and so gorgeous to look at, that to carp about it just seems churlish.
Posted Aug 25, 2025
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Cooley High
(1975)
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Jay Cocks
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Cooley High has all the grace of an Army training film.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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Weapons
(2025)
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Andy Crump
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Weapons is a feast; there’s light to dispel darkness in the climax, though Cregger adjusts the dimmer slightly to avoid illuminating the whole picture.
Posted Aug 12, 2025
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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Stephanie Zacharek
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Freakier Friday is a movie that manages to humiliate everybody.
Posted Aug 12, 2025
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