There is something decidedly unsettling about Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, which turns one of television’s seediest spectacles into a slick study of the people who turned it into ratings. He’s taken a notorious subject and fashioned it not as a critique of its criminals, but…
There is something decidedly unsettling about Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, which turns one of television’s seediest spectacles into a slick study of the people who turned it into ratings. He’s taken a notorious subject and fashioned it not as a critique of its criminals, but…
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As a loving evocation of the early 1980s—or perhaps a nostalgic endearment for the era’s defining movies—David Robert Mitchell’s dino-thriller The End of Oak Street is a summer sleeper supreme, a nifty throwback so sharply crafted and performed that it may be the season’s…
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A year after its first teaser began selling out advance IMAX screenings, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives as a staggering movie, so big-canvas and exciting, yet so humanly observed, that it recalls the long-lost Hollywood epic, where heroic adventures were told with both scope…
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Sexiness is back in American movies after an era of intimacy-averse Hollywood that all but erased the freewheeling “sex comedy” from screens. The reasons for its extended hiatus are many—polling from turned-off young moviegoers, post-#MeToo intimacy coordination and A-lister anxieties about viral screen grabs.…
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Supergirl is an early contender for 2026’s worst studio film, so lackluster that it fails to deliver even a single enjoyable scene (which is difficult to accomplish, even if you try!). This DC misfire, directed by Craig Gillespie, almost certainly will not come close to…
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The best movie characters tend to stay with you after the closing credits, and in Carolina Caroline, Samara Weaving gives us one that really lingers. As a Texas dreamer turned lovestruck outlaw in Adam Carter Rehmeier’s renegade road movie, Weaving balances romantic abandon and…
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I knew Carolina Caroline had left its mark when I couldn’t stop thinking about its title character after my first viewing. On the second screening, I plugged into the rhythms of its central relationship and almost melancholic country-and-western lyricism, and the way star Samara…
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Tuner, an offbeat character study about a troubled young New York piano tuner, is like a keyboard whose ivories are touched too lightly but beg for a more resonant plunk. From director Daniel Rohner, whose 2022 doc Navalny won an Oscar, it’s capably made…
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The most welcome surprise of the 2026 movie year comes in Is God Is, a richly atmospheric tale of vengeance so dripping with attitude and atmosphere it practically oozes off the screen like humidity before a storm. Written and directed by first timer Aleshea…
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In Blue Heron, Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker Sophy Romvari excavates a powerful, semi-autobiographical family history through memory and form. It’s a movie about reconciling childhood and loss through fragments to understand a trauma that, from a child’s view, felt incomprehensible. Only decades later can the full weight…
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