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In Review: 'Materialists,' 'Echo Valley'
Celine Song follows up 'Past Lives' with a look at love and money in modern New York while Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney try to spark some acting…
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
In Review: 'Final Destination Bloodlines,' 'Sister Midnight'
Horror two ways this week as a franchise favorite returns after a 14-year break and an Indian film reaches for instant cult status.
 • Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps
In Review: 'Friendship,' 'Caught by the Tides'
This week, Tim Robinson vies for a buddy who thinks he should leave and director Jia Zhangke keeps adding to his story of 21st century China.
 • Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps
In Review: 'Thunderbolts*.' 'The Surfer,' 'Pavements'
An underdog tale offers a different perspective on the MCU, Nicolas Cage battles a town of Australian toughs, and a seminal '90s band gets a rock-doc…
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
In Review: 'The Accountant 2,' 'The Legend of Ochi'
An action sequel delivers more of the gunplay and mathematics that audiences crave while a quirky fantasy offers Willem Dafoe and a mythic forest…
 • Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps
In Review: 'Sinners,' 'The Shrouds,' 'The Wedding Banquet'
This week's new films include a Ryan Coogler thriller, a David Cronenberg chiller, and an update of a classic '90s comedy.
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
In Review: 'Death of a Unicorn,' 'A Working Man'
Who would you take in a fight: Jason Statham or a mythical horned creature? Two revenge pictures suggest the answer.
 • Scott Tobias
In Review: 'Snow White,' 'The Alto Knights'
Disney gives its first feature film the remake treatment while two Robert De Niro's and a gang of veterans go through the motions.
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
In Review: 'Black Bag,' 'The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie'
This week: Steven Soderbergh and David Koepp's second 2025 film strips the spy movie down to the essential and a long-delayed Looney Tunes movie hits…
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
In Review: 'Mickey 17,' 'Eephus'
Bong Joon Ho returns with an audacious sci-fi satire and baseball season arrives early via a knockabout comedy with an elegiac streak.
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
In Review: 'The Monkey,' 'The Gorge'
A pair of new genre films offer threats both small and large with mixed results.
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
In Review: 'Captain America: Brave New World,' 'Paddington in Peru'
Franchise fatigue is a theme in this week's reviews, but one series proves far more exhausted than the other.
 • Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps
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