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The father of the modern blockbuster, Steven Spielberg is often dismissed as a crowd-pleasing fantasist. He’s most associated with surreal images like the bike flying…
The cattle have cousins. Always. Or children. Mothers and fathers. Lifelong friends. The provenance of the herd doesn’t matter. Neither does whether they can vocalize…
An excessively busy, boorish behemoth sweating mightily to bury its basic, boring story, Strange World is a monumentally disappointing misfire from Walt Disney Animation Studios…
If you pondered how Roma might look from a narcissist’s perspective, your answer is director / co-writer Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a…
No one could fault those who endured the full-blown embarrassment of Robert Zemeckis’s live-action Disney+ Pinocchio film for rolled eyes and exasperated sighs upon learning…
Lighting. It’s an oft-overlooked element of film unless you find yourself at the mercy of a dying projector (which is the fault of the multiplex…
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I watch a lot of movies and I've come to love independent cinema. I mean truly independent films, with zero big-name stars, no studio backing…
Solid Rock Trust blends the heist film format with the claustrophobic, person-on-a-phone tension of The Guilty. Maddie (Koko Marshall) is a one-woman crime-planning committee, working…
The story goes that writer-director James Gunn pitched the idea of a holiday special featuring his particular band of cosmic Marvel assholes during production of…
Elephant Refugees stands apart from other documentaries of its ilk by focusing on the incredible personal costs of running small-scale conservation efforts. In the Kalahari…
Making a sequel to a film that plays in a 24-hour loop on TV every year seems like an odd endeavor. Then again, A Christmas…
Clean Slate is a documentary about addiction and recovery that manages to avoid the conventions of such stories. There aren't any broad statistics or saccharine…