Clark Duke's "Arkansas" is a Southern neo-noir with a road trip vibe
We review Glenwood native Clark Duke's directorial debut, "Arkansas," which hits streaming services May 5.
"Uncut Gems" is feverish and inspired
"Uncut Gems” builds a genre-busting tale of crime and debt and chutzpah around an instantly indelible character named Howard Ratner, absolutely the last person in the world you’d want to play chicken against.
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'The Rise of Skywalker' disappoints
The cast is fine. The effects are fine. The sense of wonder and adventure and beauty are all fine. What’s missing is any sort of payoff that suggests the keepers of these stories cared about them as anything other than an ATM.
Baumbach's "Marriage Story" is a romance about divorce
Watching the typical Baumbach family, you wonder, “How did they ever make it, these terrible people?” But watching “Marriage Story,” you think the opposite: “How did they ever fail?”
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"Dolemite Is My Name" is low-key inspirational
How did this whole story remain stuck in time for 45 years? And why does it feel so fresh anyway?
"Stranger Things" still more than the sum of its pop culture parts
If the first season interrogated the nature of friendship, and the second trauma, this third season centers upon love and heroism.
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"Booksmart" flips the teen romp formula
The FOMO in a time of smartphones must be crippling: here you are plowing through AP Calc while elsewhere dudes are at Nick's karate-chopping stacks of pizza boxes and still scoring full rides to Stanford.
Penny Lane's "Hail Satan?" is a Rapert-y highlights reel of hypocrisy
The new documentary “Hail Satan?”, directed by Penny Lane, falls somewhere between a ridealong with a genuinely oddball subculture and a valentine to the emerging religion of satanists.
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Jordan Peele’s "Us" is no coincidence
In Jordan Peele's new movie "Us," the "Get Out" director unveils his "new nightmare:" People who look exactly like us and seek to take our place.
Ernie Kovacs centennial puts focus on TV genius' fuzzy but groundbreaking archive
Kovacs was the "Mad" magazine of the boob tube.
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'Vice' is daft, dark and dadaistic
Bale's Cheney is a quiet, calculating emperor on the rise.
The Great British Baking Show' is both competition and confection
The sponge
also rises.
'Ralph Breaks the Internet' lacks the joy of its predecessor
Same song, darker verse.
'Widows' makes heist films feel tense again
Thirty days,
or else.
'Outlaw King' will get you by
Until the new 'Game of Thrones' comes out.
"Mid90s" is more indie drama than skater film
More tricks!
David Gordon Green successfully reboots 'Halloween'
With scares and believable characters.
Space Cowboy
Stoicism is survival in ‘First Man.’
'A Star Is Born' remake is anything but shallow
Dive bar diamonds.
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