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In Review: 'Challengers,' 'Boy Kills World'
A week filled with rippling muscles includes a three-way love story and a gruesome revenge tale.
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Scott Tobias
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Keith Phipps
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Abigail’s Big Sisters: A Short History of Dracula’s Other Daughters
The pint-sized ballerina at the center of 'Abigail' is part of a decades-old tradition of Dracula spawn.
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Keith Phipps
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#78 (tie): 'Sátántangó': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Bela Tarr's bleak and disturbing depiction of a Hungarian village in deep decline is as mammoth as it is captivating.
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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Which could-have-been film franchise should have had more than a single movie?
If there’s a convergence point between Scott’s piece on Alex Garland and my piece classifying film franchises, it’s the 2012 film Dredd, a Garla…
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Keith Phipps
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In Review: 'Abigail,' 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare'
It's tricky: A ballerina with a secret surprises some kidnappers and some British spies get the better of a bunch of Nazis in this week's new releases.
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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The Broken Civilizations of Alex Garland
The chatter around the politics of 'Civil War' misses a career-long obsession with the making and unmaking of societies.
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Scott Tobias
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Feed, Starve, or Bury?: A New Way of Thinking About Movie Franchises
There are too many movie franchises. Here's a solution to the problem.
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Keith Phipps
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Open Question: What's the most underrated streaming service for movies?
The streaming world has a lot of obvious heavy hitters and respected outlets. I suspect the overlap between subscribers to The Reveal and subscr…
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Keith Phipps
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In Review: 'Civil War,' 'Sasquatch Sunset'
The latest from Alex Garland sends Kirsten Dunst through a self-destructing United States while, elsewhere, a group of Sasquatch faces a perilous…
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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Woody Allen In Exile
A look at the once-revered director's last four films and the breaking of a decades-long moviegoing habit.
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Scott Tobias
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Scary Scenes from the 2024 Overlook Film Festival
This year's installment of the annual horror festival, held each year in New Orleans, offered everything from creepy German resorts to journeys into the…
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Keith Phipps
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Open Question: You're a video store clerk in 1995. What do you recommend on a Friday night?
Earlier this week, I wrote about Michael Ritchie’s Diggstown, a delightful crime comedy about con artists (James Woods and Bruce Dern) squaring …
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Scott Tobias
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