Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has exploded as one of the most lucrative brands of the past decade. The original manga inspired an anime that ran for 63 episodes. That paved the way for the feature Mugen Train, which skyrocketed…
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60 years after its initial release, The Sound of Music remains a charming comfort watch that’s as relevant as ever. Debuting in theaters in 1965, the beloved musical follows Maria (Julie Andrews) as she falls in love with curmudgeonly naval…
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There's another twisty Swedish thriller on the horizon with Acorn TV's The Crow Girl. Based on Erik Axl Sund's bestselling trilogy, the novels and the new adaptation utilize many of the elements that make the genre famous, paired with a…
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A novel approach to what could’ve been a more traditional hagiographic bio-doc, Joe Beshenkovsky and James A. Smith’s “Mata Hari” uses the lens of an unfinished film to explore the complicated relationship between a father and a daughter. When “Kung…
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The characters in The Long Walk aren’t in combat, but it plays like a war picture. This isn’t surprising, as Stephen King started writing the source material during the Vietnam War, although the book wasn’t published until after it ended.…
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How long can a good thing last? Is home a place, a group of people, or perhaps both? These are some of the questions lying at the heart of Only Murders in the Building as it returns for its fifth…
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True stories that get turned into movies often seem unbelievable — hence why they make such good movies — but the tale behind Roofman is truly something that sounds so absurd, I myself might not have believed it all had…
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From the visionary mind of Spike Lee comes Highest 2 Lowest, a modern reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low. Set in New York City, the story follows David King, a powerful music mogul whose world unravels when a kidnapping…
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The Choral takes place in 1916 in a quaint little town in Yorkshire, England. World War I is raging, and with the dwindling number of men in the small town of Ramsden, the local choral society must recruit from the…
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One would not imagine needing a tissue at the final holding card of a Benny Safdie martial arts movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in a heavy layer of prosthetics and shaggy toupée. And yet, “The Smashing Machine” beautifully concludes…
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Do open relationships ever work? The answer is “yes” and “no” in Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy, Splitsville. At first, the film makes open marriage look easy. We quickly find that marriage is never easy, especially when you bring a third,…
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Few filmmakers have given as much to make the films they want as Jafar Panahi. The writer and director has gone to jail twice for his films, he’s tried smuggling his movies out of his home in Iran, he’s gone…
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