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‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Time Heals All Wounds in a Charming, Clunky Tale of Grief and Forgiveness

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‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Time Heals All Wounds in a Charming, Clunky Tale of Grief and Forgiveness

Sophia Ciminello July 10, 2023

A certain sense of joy comes from watching veteran actresses play characters who embark on a journey to a bucket list destination in hopes of... Read More

‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise is Back to Save Summer Once Again and Rage Against the (AI) Machine

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‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise is Back to Save Summer Once Again and Rage Against the (AI) Machine

Ryan McQuade July 5, 2023

For close to thirty years, audiences have watched as IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has accepted the most dangerous, complicated missions in order to... Read More

‘Extraction 2’ review: Chris Chris Bang Bang

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‘Extraction 2’ review: Chris Chris Bang Bang

Jay Ledbetter June 15, 2023

Somewhere in between the balletic symphony of violence that is the John Wick franchise and the grounded brute force of Paul Greengrass’ work on the... Read More

‘Playland’ review: A transfixing genre-bender about Boston’s oldest gay bar where the style is the substance | Tribeca

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‘Playland’ review: A transfixing genre-bender about Boston’s oldest gay bar where the style is the substance | Tribeca

Matt St. Clair June 14, 2023

It might just be the time of day that I’ve gone to my local gay bar, but it feels almost like a ghost town when... Read More

‘The Line’ review: Interesting ideas are quickly hazed in Ethan Berger’s run-of-the-mill cautionary tale about fraternity life | Tribeca

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‘The Line’ review: Interesting ideas are quickly hazed in Ethan Berger’s run-of-the-mill cautionary tale about fraternity life | Tribeca

Abe Friedtanzer June 13, 2023

Fraternities exist to offer people a sense of community, but they can also take much more than they give. Well-documented cases of hazing and truly... Read More

‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ review: Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback breathe new life into the robot-loving franchise

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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ review: Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback breathe new life into the robot-loving franchise

Catherine Gonzales June 7, 2023

The Transformers live-action franchise has an interesting place in the current mix of over-saturated sequels, reboots and superhero films in that it predates the Marvel... Read More

‘The Flash’ review: Michael Keaton’s Batman shines in a bland and disconnected multiverse

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‘The Flash’ review: Michael Keaton’s Batman shines in a bland and disconnected multiverse

Catherine Gonzales June 6, 2023

We’re in our multiverse era and it is fitting that The Flash, a film dealing in divergent paths and multiverses would have its own long-winding... Read More

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ review: The shape-shifting sequel pulls you into its wondrous web

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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ review: The shape-shifting sequel pulls you into its wondrous web

Sophia Ciminello May 31, 2023

Let’s do things differently this time. It’s a line spoken by the punk little drummer girl of a Spider-Woman, Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), who opens... Read More

‘Elemental’ review: Pixar’s chemical romance simmers with creative spark in a tale as old as time | Cannes

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‘Elemental’ review: Pixar’s chemical romance simmers with creative spark in a tale as old as time | Cannes

Luke Hearfield May 29, 2023

And so we say au revoir to another Cannes Film Festival. The closing film of the prestigious festival was the newest outing from animation powerhouse;... Read More

‘Anatomy of a Fall’ review: Justine Triet’s courtroom drama features an impeccable performance from Sandra Hüller at the helm | Cannes

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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ review: Justine Triet’s courtroom drama features an impeccable performance from Sandra Hüller at the helm | Cannes

Savina Petkova May 27, 2023

With what is only her fourth feature film, French filmmaker Justine Triet has made a strong call for award recognition. After her 2019 Cannes Main... Read More