Two summers ago Danny and Michael Philippou made a striking horror debut with Talk to Me, their scary possession thriller about teens summoning spirits via the creepy severed hand of a dead psychic. Fun and fresh, audiences responded to the tune of $100 million global…
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Tom Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie return for what feels like a culminating chapter in Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, the $400 million follow-up to 2023’s Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part 1. But while the 2023 installment ranked as one of the series’ most fast-paced and…
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Why do adult men often struggle to make friends with other men? Such fraught camaraderie dynamics inform writer-director Andrew DeYoung’s black comedy Friendship, in which an ill-fated bromance makes for an observant movie which, like the great human comedies, mines hilarity from humiliation and…
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It’s been 25 years since Final Destination first arrived on screens, its crafty (and best) 2000 original ushering in a popular franchise predicated on elaborately contrived mayhem and driven by grim musings on mortality and fate. Fourteen years have passed since the last installment, which makes…
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