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For what must be the majority of its running time, Tintorera is a sun-and-skin melodrama set in a Mexican resort village where the loitering Steven and Miguel (Hugo Stiglitz and Andrè… Read More
2021-02-05 09:22
Imagine a downbeat cross between historical romance, rape-revenge thriller and what's become known as folk horror and you'll have a pretty good idea of the overall mood of The Reckoning Read More
2021-01-31 01:05
A woman living alone in a drab apartment block may or may not be losing her mind in Knocking, the feature film debut of Swedish documentarian Frida Kempff. The details of the story are nothi… Read More
2021-01-30 04:45
It may be hard for younger cinephiles, who've grown up with an Internet-driven media landscape where all kinds of wild perversions and violent spectacles are available at the click of a mous… Read More
2021-01-15 21:47
Possessor opens with a glossy murder sequence that seems to be the jumping-off point for a glossy techno-thriller. The killer is revealed to be an assassin who operates by taking over the mi… Read More
2020-12-09 06:36
Before watching Studiocanal's new restoration of the 30-year-old science-fiction adventure Total Recall, I had only vague memories of seeing it on opening night. I mean, I remembered that I… Read More
2020-11-26 20:05
Few films are anywhere near as well made--as fierce and committed--as Requiem for a Dream, which stands as a 20-year-old landmark in an especially fertile era of New York indie filmmaking an… Read More
2020-09-29 19:21
In some sense, Shivers, a venereal horror movie that invites you to track the vectors of sexual intercourse among a group of apartment-dwellers, is a parody of a soap opera where the point i… Read More
2020-09-01 21:57
A trio of small-time crooks looking to swipe an elderly couple’s retirement savings get in over their heads in The Owners, a diverting if overly familiar crime drama with horror-movie… Read More
2020-04-29 01:35
Lock Up came out in 1989, but for much of its running time it feels like it could have been made at least 15 years earlier. Shot mainly on location at a real state prison (with real pri… Read More
2020-04-08 19:01
Director Marc Meyers (My Friend Dahmer) attempts to channel the spirit of 1988 with this amiable but overly familiar heavy-metal horror movie Read More
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In his quieter moments Lawrence turns in an impressive, genuinely touching performance as a man torn between duties to his family and his friend, but Smith is more reliant on a constant feed… Read More
2019-12-06 07:17
Knives and Skin, an oddly inflected new film from director Jennifer Reeder, is unlike much else I’ve seen. Sure, there are signposts. The overall vibe is sort of midwestern David Lynch… Read More
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As Piercing opens, Reed (Christopher Abbott) is a man with murder on his mind. About 30, nondescript, slightly schlubby even, with a receding hairline, five-o-clock shadow, and a troubled, u… Read More
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The Spy Who Dumped Me is a lot — femme-centric rom-com, violent action-thriller, dopey spy farce, and genial paean to friendship in the face of adversity — and director S… Read More
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At least Cabin in the Woods had the sense to call it a day after misrepresenting the horror genre for 95 minutes. Bad Times at the El Royale misunderstands Quentin Tarant… Read More
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A little more than halfway through Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a fragmented, multifaceted cinematic biography of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, Mishima expresses nostalgia for an after… Read More
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A study in choreography for camera Read More
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I remember the summer of 1991, when Terminator 2: Judgment Day landed in movie theatres with all the fuck-you noise, power, and momentum of a Ford Freightliner crashing from an L.A… Read More
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Traditions of faith, love and family are all on the table in Disobedience, in which New Yorker Ronnie Curtis, née Ronit Khruska (Rachel Weisz), returns after many years to her native… Read More
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One among very few genuinely terrible films that are also justly famous, Blood Feast is the oft-cited progenitor of a certain strain of American cinema: the slasher film — or, more spe… Read More
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John Wick: Chapter 2 opens, perhaps incongruously, with shots from a Buster Keaton action sequence projected on the side of a midtown Manhattan office building. Make no mistake — that… Read More
2017-06-11 05:34
Fondly remembered in cult circles as a surprisingly well-acted low-budget horror diversion, this Reagan-era creature feature boasts a roster of game performances, a plethora of vintage locat… Read More
2017-03-10 22:42
Brimstone is a spectacularly lurid melodrama that seeks to excuse indulgences both bloody and lewd by catching them up in a lecture about runaway misogyny, which is used as a stick with whic… Read More
2016-11-25 17:12
Do you like Fleetwood Mac? Do you like nudity? Well, has Lykke Li got a music video for you … Read More
2016-11-25 17:10
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2016-11-25 17:07
Pretty sure this is a Mulholland Dr. homage tbh Read More
2016-11-25 17:06
I straight-up guffawed at the wallpaper in the elevator. Good stuff Read More
2016-11-25 17:04
Difficult viewing but an amazing track Read More
2016-11-03 22:50
So bad it’s good? I wouldn’t go that far. But Blood Diner is definitely something—a no-frills pastiche of 1950s disembodied-brain sci-fi potboiler, 1960s Herschell Gordon L… Read More
2016-11-03 22:37
Chopping Mall is not the shopping-center slasher-movie its title suggests. Here’s what you really need to know: It includes a scene where a woman clad in light-blue Playboy panties run… Read More
2016-06-24 06:15
Jesse’s gonna die. From The Neon Demon‘s opening scene, a staged tableaux that has the aspiring model (Elle Fanning) slumped on a settee, head back, covered in a rush of blood as… Read More
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Midnight Special is readily understood as a film about being a parent who loves a child so much — and of course there are plenty of movies about people who love their children, so… Read More
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