How Big Will Avatar: The Way of the Water Be?
It’s been 84 years, but Avatar: The Way of Water… is here? Might need to buy a ticket to be sure. Besides, theatres are in dire straits, and The Way of Water may be the Hail Mary pass to put…
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The Christmas Classic That Only Gets Better With Time
There is one undeniable truth: Christmas holiday fare is a dime a dozen. Specialty channels like Hallmark literally air Christmas movies in July, and amp up the output as the season draws nearer, with such titles as A Christmas Cookie…
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Is Eleven’s End The Key to Survival?
In Stranger Things season 4, the danger escalated greatly. Now, while we wait for the fifth and final season, fans try to figure out how everything will come to the end. Stranger Things is a fun and well-written series. It…
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Timothée Chalamet Shines In Luca Guadagnino’s Ravishing Cannibal Coming-Of-Ager [Venice]
To love is to want to consume someone whole, to pick their skin and sinews out of the gaps between your teeth, to swallow their pancreas and wash it all down with gulps of throat-fizzing stomach acid. Take the age-old…
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‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Romance Story is Long on Romance, Short on Fundamentals
I confess that, as a film critic, I go into movies cold these days. Trailers tend to give too much away. Social media is ablaze with factoids about new projects; I don’t want to know what a movie will say…
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Sight and Sound 2022 – The Greatest Films of All Time Ranked Once Again
The most hotly anticipated update to what amounts to, as someone with every right to make such a claim once said, “the only list serious movie people take seriously”, has arrived, bearing the most uproarious shifts in its 70-year history.…
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‘Election’ Was the Cynical 90s Movie No One Expected
Moviegoers in May 1999 did not receive the film that they were expecting. While Election is an R-rated high school comedy, this was no American Pie. The film's marketing misdirected audiences into believing that Alexander Payne's film was an easy-going,…
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Why Sing 2 on Netflix is a Great Kids Movie For Young Musicians
Sing 2 is the star-studded second installment of the popular musical franchise Sing. The plot of this movie follows Buster Moon, owner of the Moon Theater, as he takes his show to the big city. He dreams of making it…
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Forget ‘Roma,’ Alejandro Iñárritu Wishes His ‘Handful of Truths,’ Was His’ 8 ½’ [Venice]
If you ever questioned it before, let “Bardo” — wordily subtitled ‘or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,’ as was the director’s wont with 2014’s “Birdman” — lay your queries to rest: Alejandro Iñárritu really, really loves Fellini. He’s…
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‘Emancipation’ Film Review: Will Smith Starrer Struggles To Find Identity
As students, we’re taught about the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln signed in the 1800s. What we’re not taught is the effort it took those who were enslaved to free themselves. To this day, we’re still not introduced to the bold…
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The Oscars’ Best Supporting Actress Race Has No Frontrunner
Viewership in the Academy Awards has declined in recent years for many reasons, but among them is the lack of tension. After a long award season of critics’ prizes, industry events, and televised awards shows, you generally see the same…
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Why Brazil Should Be Considered One of the Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever Made
There are plenty of film lovers who would not consider the 1985 dystopian classic, Brazil, a science fiction film. One of them is the creative genius behind the film, writer and director Terry Gilliam. In a 2014 interview with the…
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