Dakota Fanning Gets Caught in a Love Triangle in This Solidly Grounded Romance
For a while, it seemed like every year, we were getting a new film by Joe Swanberg. As a major figure in the mumblecore movement, along with other filmmakers like Mark Duplass and Greta Gerwig, Swanberg made a name for…
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GOAT Review | Flickreel
It’s hard to believe that less than a decade ago, Sony Pictures Animation produced The Emoji Movie. The studio subsequently pulled the sharpest of 180s, making the Spider-Verse films, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and KPop Demon Hunters. Sony continues…
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A Melodrama That Mistakes Intensity for Insight
Directed by Vanessa Caswill and adapted from Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, Reminders of Him arrives with a built-in fanbase and a premise primed for emotional devastation. On paper, the film has the makings of a powerful romantic drama about guilt,…
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Christian Petzold’s Latest Is A Light Meditation On Doubling & Desire
From the outset of meeting Laura (Paula Beer), she seems lost and adrift. Peering over the railing of the highway while cars honk in passing, it’s unclear what she is doing here, nor what she plans to do. Mirrors No.…
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Jason Bateman and David Harbour Star In A Grim, Vital Study of the Male Loneliness Epidemic Wrapped in a Noir Mystery
Online discourse would rather pluck low-hanging fruit than take seriously exhaustively researched sociological data, which is why wading into the subject of male loneliness is less preferable than riding a bicycle without a seat. Men are, in fact, lonely, for…
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Prime Video’s Hoax Sitcom Has Plenty of Staying Power After a Major Rewrite
The concept of Jury Duty is predicated on "high risk, high reward." Creators Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky gambled that an ordinary person would take the dramatic twists and deeply funny antics of a jury duty gone wrong at face…
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Prime Video’s 6-Part Dark Comedy Quietly Turns Into an Intense Psychological Thriller
Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed’s new Prime Video series Bait opens with a scene that's almost painfully recognizable. With Ahmed's character, Shah Latif, standing on a lavish movie set while playing a version of James Bond for an audition, it’s…
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One Hour Girlfriend – Film Threat
In writer/director Gregory Hatanaka’s One Hour Girlfriend, an isolated man named Richard (Chris Spinelli) contracts with an agency to send a companion to his home for an hour, agreeing to pay $100K for her time. Melina (Sofia Papuashvili) arrives, unaware that…
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An Uncomfortable Satire About Midlife Unraveling
The limited series Vladimir is as an unusual hybrid of dark comedy, psychological drama, and academic satire. Adapted from the novel by Julia May Jonas, the eight-episode series follows a middle-aged literature professor whose carefully constructed life begins to fracture…
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Wuthering Heights Review | Flickreel
As far as adaptations go, I’ve never viewed any source material as sacred, including The Bible. While a faithful adaptation is always welcome, I’m open to a filmmaker leaving their signature on a classic story, especially one that’s been told…
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Amy Adams Sinks In Vapid, Misguided Alcoholism Drama By ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Director [Berlin]
For a solid decade, starting in the late 2000s with Disney’s charming fairytale comedy “Enchanted” all the way to Denis Villeneuve’s melancholy sci-fi “Arrival,” it was easy to trust Amy Adams, a six-time Academy Award nominee. Then, somewhere around Ron…
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Mason Gooding & James Van Der Beek’s Bad Night Is Aggressively Dull
Ever since the Scream franchise helped put him on the map, Mason Gooding has been a great talent to watch. The genre-bending slasher Heart Eyes is still his best non-franchise role yet, but he's also branched outside of horror in…
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