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Smith has crafted a funny and wistful observance on coming to terms with the passage of time and life between parents, adult children and siblings.…
Read MoreAlex Garland’s latest head trip Men, starring Jessie Buckley as a haunted Londoner who retreats to the countryside following a personal trauma, begins strong and becomes less compelling as it resolves. This is mostly because Garland ultimately proves less interested in his feminine enigma…
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Read MoreProbably the less said about the pointless new Firestarter the better, a movie that makes its 1984 predecessor (which wasn’t one of the better movie adaptations of a Stephen King novel) look positively artful in comparison.…
Read MoreSmart and scary, Hatching is an impressive mash-up of social critique, body horror and monster movie, each equally effective.…
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