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Bill Skarsgård Meets Hell on Wheels in This Darkly Humorous Crime Thriller
Bill Skarsgård Meets Hell on Wheels in This Darkly Humorous Crime Thriller

Who doesn't love a good vigilante movie? There will always be injustice in the world, and we little folks almost always find we have zero control over the rights and wrongs of it all, so it can make for a…

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Rachel Zegler Is The Perfect Disney Princess But That’s Not Good Enough To Overshadow Live-Action Remake Problems
Rachel Zegler Is The Perfect Disney Princess But That’s Not Good Enough To Overshadow Live-Action Remake Problems

Much has been said about Disney's latest live-action remake, Marc Webb's Snow White, in the years and months leading up to its release. Relentless discourse, the kind only heightened by social media and poor faith readings, has surrounded this movie…

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Did We Really Need Two Robert De Niros?
Did We Really Need Two Robert De Niros?

Martin Scorsese may have directed some of the greatest crime dramas ever to be created, but Robert De Niro starred in most of them. The unofficial trilogy of Goodfellas, Casino, and The Irishman is a testament to that fact, and…

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Ellen Pompeo’s Uneven Hulu Drama Rips From Infamous Headlines, But Doesn’t Break the Mold
Ellen Pompeo’s Uneven Hulu Drama Rips From Infamous Headlines, But Doesn’t Break the Mold

Ellen Pompeo wants to break the Meredith Grey mold she's inhabited for the past two decades on Grey's Anatomy. Her first starring project since putting on those iconic blue scrubs is Good American Family, another "ripped from the headlines" true…

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Oppressed Princess Reclaims Kingdom From Occupying Tyrannical Queen In Otherwise Boring, Loud Spectacle
Oppressed Princess Reclaims Kingdom From Occupying Tyrannical Queen In Otherwise Boring, Loud Spectacle

Gaudy, noisy, overwrought and tedious, Disney’s live-action “Snow White” movie is sometimes dull, sometimes excruciating and not at all good. However, it has one unintentionally delicious element that makes the movie semi-tolerable: the ways in which its narrative mirrors the…

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Robert De Niro Is Back For Another Tired Gangster Flick, But This Time, There Are Two Of Him
Robert De Niro Is Back For Another Tired Gangster Flick, But This Time, There Are Two Of Him

Robert De Niro adds another gangster movie to his long list of genre credits with The Alto Knights, but it's far from a victory lap. Loosely based on the mafia bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, both played by De…

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Who Knew Wilson Fisk Could Be Funny?
Who Knew Wilson Fisk Could Be Funny?

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again Episode 4.While Netflix's Daredevil series is fondly remembered for its unapologetically gritty and mature look into the Marvel Cinematic Universe's criminal underworld, there were brief moments when the show…

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Absurd ’80s Blaxploitation Spoof Tries to Be So Bad It’s Good
Absurd ’80s Blaxploitation Spoof Tries to Be So Bad It’s Good

To say New Jack Fury is an acquired taste? An understatement. Lanfia Wal's 80s-era spoof Blaxploitation action-comedy is at the crossroads of Astron-6, Chappelle's Show, the video game Streets of Rage, and Black Dynamite. It's never as good as the…

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A Friend Break-Up Causes Utter Chaos In The Most Uncomfortable Comedy You’ll Ever Watch
A Friend Break-Up Causes Utter Chaos In The Most Uncomfortable Comedy You’ll Ever Watch

Friendship break-ups are brutal. No matter how long you've been friends, if you're on the receiving end, it can feel like a rebuke of your entire personhood. For Craig Waterman, it's especially tough. He's not necessarily a guy who has…

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Chloe Fineman Gives Generation Z the Teen Sex Comedy They Deserve
Chloe Fineman Gives Generation Z the Teen Sex Comedy They Deserve

Teen sex comedies used to be all the rage. Who can forget Jason Biggs ejaculating into an apple pie in American Pie or Michelle Trachtenberg and Travis Westers' "twincest" in EuroTrip? The sub-genre has died down over the years, largely…

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The Eras Tour for Letterboxd Users
The Eras Tour for Letterboxd Users

Music is a crucial element of film. We’ve all seen the videos of horror movie trailers being re-edited to look like comedies and vice versa, with sound making a world of difference in establishing tone. Good scores have the power…

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Jay Duplass’ Hilarious May/December After Hours Adventure Is A Super Winning Charmer [SXSW]
Jay Duplass’ Hilarious May/December After Hours Adventure Is A Super Winning Charmer [SXSW]

What if Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” was transformed from something less comedically nihilistic and Kafka-esque and shifting towards the unexpected romantic comedy genre with a dash of May/December age and cultural differences on top to give it extra flavor and…

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