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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BLISS (dir. Mike Cahill): Film review
An empty novelty, presented in a way that can only keep the audience at a distance
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The Little Things (dir. John Lee Hancock): Film review
I have a feeling that The Little Things is going to be a bit of a critical punching bag, but I enjoyed the film
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Psycho Goreman (dir. Steven Kostanski): Film review
It’s hard to overstate how wonderfully fucked up this movie is.
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One Night in Miami (dir. Regina King): Film review
A fictionalized meeting of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke, adapted from the play by the same name.
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Wonder Woman 1984 (dir. Patty Jenkins): Film review
Exactly what I needed during this atypical holiday season
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Promising Young Woman (dir. Emerald Fennell): Film review
A stylish, angry feminist thriller/dark comedy with attitude to burn.
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News of the World (dir. Paul Greengrass): Film review
The kind of movie that’s totally worth watching while simultaneously being nothing at all to write home about.
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Vanguard (dir. Stanley Tong): Film review
Jackie Chan, who is now in his sixties, shows us he can still exchange punches and kicks with the best of them.
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FREAKY (dir. Christopher Landon): Film review
By mashing up horror tropes with sci-fi concepts, Christopher Landon creates movies that are fun to watch, above all else
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Deadline (1980 – dir. Mario Azzopardi): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Hopefully the circulation of this new print of Deadline will lead to some rowdy retrospective screenings once they’re safe to hold again.
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Zappa (2020 – dir. Alex Winter): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Frank Zappa is a walking contradiction.
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The Killing of Two Lovers (2020 – dir. Robert Machoian): Philadelphia Film Festival review
This is one of those “the less you know, the better” movies, not because anything so surprising happens that you wouldn’t want to be spoiled,…
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Digger (dir. Georgis Grigorakis): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A very entertaining window into an unfamiliar world, filled with familiar characterizations of real, devastatingly human people.
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Night of the Kings (dir. Philippe Lacôte): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The movie rocks. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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MLK/FBI (dir. Sam Pollard): Philadelphia Film Festival review
We often forget that back in the day, civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was a very controversial figure.
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I’m Your Woman (2020 – dir. Julia Hart): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Complex characters and shocking plot twists in service of a story that brings a female flavor to a typically male-dominated subgenre
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Come True (2020 – dir. Anthony Scott Burns): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Immediately striking, and consistently spooky for almost the entirety of its runtime
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The Witmans (2020 – dir. David Peterson): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The Witman family has gone through a tragedy so unimaginable that it couldn’t possibly be written into fiction.
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