Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. These lyrics strike a perfect chord at a key moment in J.T. Mollner’s twisty thriller Strange Darling, one of the most inventive films of 2024. It plays a cunning game with its audience, luring…
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A friend recently wondered if “the pendulum had begun to swing back” on the #MeToo movement that exploded in 2017, a righteous anger bullet of delayed justice for scores of men behaving badly. Certainly not according to Blink Twice, actress turned filmmaker Zoë Kravitz’s…
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The idea of human transformation often feels remote, especially when we think about the incarcerated. We tend to see their lives as grim realities, grateful that we’re not in their shoes, and seldom do we stop to consider the forces—both personal and social—that continually…
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There are two films competing in director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus—the first an impeccably designed technical nod to Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens, recreated with meticulous reverence. But the second is a story that’s little more than a riff on…
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