The most exciting thing about ANNETTE is the way it breaks the formal rules of a musical, most notably in how it begins and ends its songs.
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Author: Dan Scully
Dan Scully is a film buff and humorist living in a tiny apartment in Philadelphia. He hosts the podcast I Like to Movie Movie and is the proud father to twin cactuses named Riggs & Murtaugh. Also, he doesn't really mind when Batman kills people. Follow him on Twitter and Letterboxd.
The Tomorrow War (dir. Chris McKay): Film review
When the film embraces its B-movie vibes, it rocks extremely hard. It’s when it takes itself too seriously that it ends up coming across as silly.
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My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (dir. Jonathan Cuartas): Film review
A film which will stick with you long after it ends.
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THE SPARKS BROTHERS (dir. Edgar Wright): Film review
Perhaps the most wonderful thing about the film is how welcoming it is to new fans.
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (dir. Michael Chaves): Film review
A disappointing entry in the Conjuring canon
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In the Heights (dir. Jon M. Chu): Film review
The musical which first put Lin-Manuel Miranda on the map gets a cinematic treatment
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Army of the Dead (dir. Zack Snyder): Film review
More so than anything else, ARMY OF THE DEAD is a great piece of entertainment
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Adverse (dir. Brian Metcalf): Film review
It’s not the plot that resonates once the credits roll — it’s the characters.
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Those Who Wish Me Dead (dir. Taylor Sheridan): Film review
A supremely entertaining thriller that delivers its charms in brutal flourishes
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Oxygen (dir. Alexandre Aja): Film review
This solid thriller had reviewer Dan Scully clenching his clenchables much harder than he expected
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The Mauritanian (dir. Kevin Macdonald): Film review
The Mauritanian is very worth watching, but it feels like it exists just a few years too late.
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Wrath of Man (dir. Guy Ritchie): Film review
WRATH OF MAN, the British gangster-heist-revenge film from Guy Ritchie, is a legitimately great movie
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Mortal Kombat (dir. Simon McQuoid): Film review
It’s never easy to adapt a video game to film, mostly because the fun of a game is typically not the plot, so much as…
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Godzilla vs. Kong (dir. Adam Wingard): Film review
This clash of the titans is absolutely wonderful to behold
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NOBODY (dir. Ilya Naishuller): Film review
If someone told me that the cinematic trend kicked off by Liam Neeson in which a middle-aged gentleman with a certain set of skills has…
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CRISIS (dir. Nicholas Jarecki): Film review
Crisis does for the opioid crisis what Crash attempted to do for race relations in America.
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100 Days to Live (dir. Ravin Gandhi): Film review
In the absence of resources, all you really need is a good story and the desire to tell it
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SLAXX (dir. Elza Kephart): Film review
A pair of possessed jeans comes to life and starts killing the staff in delightfully brutal ways
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Sacrifice (dir. Andy Collier, Toor Mian): Film review
Takes its time getting to the scary stuff, but uses that time to ratchet up the dread in a big way, leading to a surprising finale that chills to the bone.
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Greenland (dir. Ric Roman Waugh): Film review
Worth checking out before the world ends
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