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Disclosure Day review – distinctly lacking in…

So far, so Spielberg – he sets the stage for an ambitious, epic, action-heavy story about a group of do-gooders facing…

1 month ago

Scary Movie review – belated return of the…

Like an irksome stinging insect nonetheless vital to controlling excess animal population, the Scary Movie franchise serves a worthy function in…

1 month ago

Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen…

The British Film Institute was following a similar trail of hyperlinks. Kitty Robertson, an assistant curator at the BFI National Archive,…

1 month ago

Hacks was always a love story

Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks…

1 month ago

Tuner review – woefully off-key

Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);…

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The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review

In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides…

2 months ago

The End of It – first-look review

Despite an intriguing sci-fi premise, Maria Martínez Bayona's feature debut is a tonally mismatched and unintentionally comedic slog. As tradition…

2 months ago

Hope – first-look review | Little White Lies

For all of the rip-roaring set pieces in Na Hong-jin’s creature feature Hope, there’s a scene at the halfway point that encapsulates…

2 months ago

Colony – first-look review | Little White Lies

In the post-Romero era of zombie horror filmmaking, there are only a handful of titles that truly stand out, and one…

2 months ago

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – first-look…

Early into Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Sundance-anointed filmmaker Kris (Hannah Einbinder) explains to erstwhile scream…

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