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Kleber Mendonça Filho gives us the most important political film of the year with ‘The Secret Agent’, a thriller fluent in both film and political history, with a captivating performance from Wagner Moura anchoring the picture.
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Frighteningly prescient, renowned documentarian Raoul Peck navigates through generations of fascism with the words of George Orwell.
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'The Conjuring: Last Rites’ just doesn't come together in concept or on the page, and the film falls well short as a result. If you’re a fan of this franchise, it may be worth checking out to see the Warrens slow dance into the sunset. Otherwise, this is a wash of an experience at the cinemas.
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While Genndy Tartakovsky has not lost a touch animating expressive characters and worlds, his latest offering, the R-rated ’Fixed’, is painfully unfunny and contains far too much dated humor.
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With a towering performance from Danielle Deadwyler and an assured sense of style, director R.T. Thorne breathes new life into Canadian genre cinema with the thrillingly tactile ‘40 Acres’ and ensures a future for this art form.
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While it may not be as narratively and thematically strong as ‘Past Lives’, Celine Song still delivers a jaw-droppingly affecting meditation on love and its intrinsic connection to life with ‘Materialists’.
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Josh Hartnett fueled widespread conversation last year with his performance in the M. Night Shyamalan thriller ‘Trap’. So, following a polarizing performance such as that one, what is an actor to do next? Star in the B-movie action thriller ‘Fight or Flight’ and dye your hair blonde.
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Bolstered by Tim Robinson's amazing talent, Andrew DeYoung’s ‘Friendship’ is designed to make audiences as uncomfortable as possible during sequences of massive embarrassment that are as aesthetically thrilling as they are painfully hilarious.
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All we have to say about ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ is keep the clowns away. They’re always going to be scary - whether they haunt or nightmares or they’re simply a poor suggestion on your playlist.
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For the first time in a long time, a Sony Pictures adaptation, specifically the video game adaptation of ‘Until Dawn’, appeared to bear at least some semblance of hope from the outside looking in. It didn’t happen.
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While Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons contains a memorable lead turn from Steve Coogan, one can’t wash the foul taste the film leaves with its ill-conceived trivialization of Argentina’s Dirty War.
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Despite a well-mounted cast and one of the best cinematographers working today contributing to the project, Alex Scharfman’s ‘Death of a Unicorn’ is yet another bad film from a studio that is in desperate need of reinvention.
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Tim Fehlbaum’s attempt at criticizing the normative ideals of journalistic objectivity in ‘September 5’ turns into a total and complete failure by being afraid of engaging itself with the backdrop it presents.
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‘Nosferatu’ may truly be Robert Eggers’ best film yet. He fired on all cylinders here and delivered a spirited modern rendition of a classic story that belongs in the same hallowed halls as the 1922 original from which it was wrought.
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If you have the time, ‘Wicked’ is a totally worthy afternoon at the movies meant for family and friends. The World of Oz needed a refreshment, and perhaps this wizardly revisit is exactly what the wizard ordered.
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Liam Neeson gives his all for the first time in a long time in ‘Absolution’, even if the material he has to work with tends to be on the muddled side.
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Andrea Arnold turns her social realist lens into a magical one with ‘Bird’ and fails at drawing any meaningful arcs on its central characters despite a constantly assured stylistic touch.
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Mohammad Rasoulof confronts and rejects state propaganda in his daring and courageous The Seed of the Sacred Fig and makes the most critical piece of political media of the decade so
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Samara Weaving keeps the blood count piling up in E.L Katz’s 'Azrael', but the film’s silent gimmick hampers its momentum.
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Sebastian Stan continues to do great work in the independent sphere with an often engrossing, though underwhelming, character study in Aaron Schimberg’s ‘A Different Man’.
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