I ventured into Saw X armed with only the faintest recollections of its inaugural 2004 original, which saw the light of day almost two decades ago at a time when the American horror film arena indulged in notions of “torture porn”—a subgenre in which…
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Gael García Bernal, the distinguished Mexican-born actor renowned for his exceptional early 2000s screen portraits in films such as Amores Perros, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mamá también and Bad Education—all of which made him an internationally acclaimed movie star—triumphantly returns with his best…
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As a director, Kenneth Branagh is foremost a showman—in fact his subtlest picture was his poignant childhood memoir Belfast—so it comes as a bit of a surprise that his latest, A Haunting in Venice, very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s 1969 novel Hallowe’en Party…
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Memo to The Nun II filmmakers: you had one job. If nothing else, a horror film must provide thrills. While the new sequel to the 2018 hit The Nun may look great, it is dull, overlong and scare-free. The eighth—yes, eighth—picture in “The Conjuring…
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