The Final Reckoning opens with Ethan Hunt receiving a video cassette, complete with a mission, should he choose to accept it. It calls to mind the first film when a flight attendant asks Hunt if he’d like to watch a…
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Being unhoused is often associated with the idea of roughness: rough sleeping, having it rough, going through a rough patch. Yet, Frank Dillane’s Mike embodies a contrasting elegance. His delicate limbs tuck tightly against a slender frame when night comes,…
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In the middle of a busy Hong Kong intersection, as snow falls on the streets, two gunmen unleash a barrage of gunfire on an unsuspecting crowd. Before the night is through, a hospital will be bombed and the scion of…
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One of the deepest and most difficult love stories there is, the relationship between a mother and daughter can be, at times, a total nightmare. This is perhaps never more apparent than in Julia Max's The Surrender, in which Colby…
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How deep do the scars of war run? Kei Ishikawa's take on A Pale View of Hills, based on Kazuo Ishiguro's book of the same name, explores a new perspective on the world and how it heals after the devastation…
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No matter how surreptitiously Folarin (Sope Dirisu) thinks he’s acting, his perceptive young sons Remi (Chibuike Marvellous Egbo) and Akin (Godwin Egbo) pick up on the nuances of his behavior. A flirtatious smile with a woman who’s not their mother…
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Dominik Moll’s crime thriller, Dossier 137 , serves up an intense inspection of malignant police institutionalism. Like in many of his previous works, the director has a knack for exploring sociopolitical concepts on the spectrum of morality. Here, he does…
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When Rick and Morty first aired in 2013 on Adult Swim, it quickly excited fans with the titular grandpa and grandson's intergalactic and interdimensional misadventures that spanned each episode. Between the crude, yet clever humor of each mind-boggling exploit and…
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Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 3. The premiere episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 saw Maggie (Lauren Cohan) being forced to go back to New York…
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“The offscreen is more evocative”, says a Jean-Luc Godard lookalike in “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s Palme d’Or contender at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It is an astonishing inclusion in a film that is, ultimately, nothing more than a painstakingly…
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For anyone who has experienced the excruciating process of auditioning for something, I can't recommend Fame enough, and I also can't recommend it at all. At least, I can't recommend it if you're not prepared to be thrust right back…
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Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 6. The sixth episode of The Last of Us Season 2 is the most beautifully heartbreaking episode of the show so far — and yes,…
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