On the surface, Regretting You seems like a typical teen romance. Mckenna Grace’s Clara is a bright young woman with a promising future. Mason Thames’ Miller has a heart of gold, but he comes from a troubled background and always…
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CBS is spoiling us rotten with this week's NCIS programming. Not only do we get the infamous Veterans Day crossover between the flagship show and NCIS: Origins that was teased before the season started, but Origins Episode 5 kicks off…
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"I often have the feeling that in my day, nothing much happens... and I've wasted it." So muses photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) midway through his recorded conversation with his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall). Linda has solicited…
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Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a somber, deeply human biographical musical drama that refuses to play by the usual rhythms of the rockstar movie. Rather than glorifying fame or recreating Bruce Springsteen’s greatest hits, the film immerses…
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Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Pluribus Episodes 1 & 2. It's almost impossible to write about Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show, Pluribus, without wandering into territory that critics have been shooed away from — and with…
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The Farrelly Brothers, Peter and Bobby, were comedy royalty in Hollywood after hits “Dumb And Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary”, among others. Much like the Coens and the Safdies, they recently split up to chart their individual careers. Peter…
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Even if you’re not a musical theatre buff, chances are that you’ve at least heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein thanks to Oklahoma!, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. People are less familiar with Rodgers and Hart, specifically…
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Coming off of last week's phenomenal episode, and with the promise of an episode centered on my favorite character this week, my expectations were sky-high high for 9-1-1's latest episode. Sadly, though, Season 9, Episode 5, "Día de los Muertos"…
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There's an incandescent sweetness to Left-Handed Girl, the solo directorial debut from long-time Sean Baker collaborator Shin Ching-Tsou. Co-written and edited by him, the film is nonetheless distinctively Ching-Tsou's, a romantically funny rebuke of patriarchal conventions and Taiwanese traditionalism. Centering…
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Phil Johnston’s The Twits is an animated musical comedy that should, in theory, have been a perfect playground for anarchic imagination. Roald Dahl’s 1980 novel was a lean, nasty little morality tale about cruelty and comeuppance — a darkly funny…
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The films that feel like they’re giving you the entirety of a life, getting to the heart and soul of what it means to be a person, are few and far between, but they feel exceptional when they’re able to…
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There’s something almost bizarrely impressive about how little a film like “Sacrifice,” the latest from filmmaker Romain Gavras, has to say about the state of our world and yet how loudly it all continues on anyway. Despite gesturing towards urgent…
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