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Eve Hewson and Orén Kinlan star in "Flora and Son."

Power of music strengthens bonds

Few people have translated the unique and powerful way music brings people together better than writer/director John Carney. His films Once (2007), Begin Again (2013), and Sing Street (2016) are […]

Pete Davidson, left, and Paul Dano portray brothers in the new film Dumb Money.

Invest your time into ‘Dumb Money’

The always whip-fast and sometimes whip-smart finance comedy Dumb Money opens with a definition of its title: A term for what Wall Street investors call amateur day traders looking to […]

Ayo Edebiri, left, and Rachel Sennott star in the new comedy Bottoms.

Raunchy comedy does not hold back

Shiva Baby writer and director Emma Seligman teams back up with its star Rachel Sennott for Bottoms, another sex comedy that’s paradoxically weirder and somehow more mainstream than Seligman’s 2020 […]

Denzel Washington returns as a one-man wrecking crew in The Equalizer 3.

Not all trilogies are created equal

When it comes to Hollywood math, having just one sequel doesn’t quite square the equation. So, nine years after vigilante actioner The Equalizer, we have a trilogy capper in the form […]

Archie Madekwe, left, and David Harbour star in Gran Turismo.

Video game movie is a car crash

Sony takes another shot at adapting a popular PlayStation series for the big screen with Gran Turismo, a stock sports biopic to go along with their stock action-adventure Uncharted from […]

Corey Hawkins stars in the latest Dracula movie, The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

New Dracula tale sucks your will to live

Earlier this year, the boisterous action comedy Renfield reimagined what the world of a modern-day Dracula might look like through the eyes of his beleaguered assistant. Though the film comes […]

Mollie Gordon and Ben Platt star in Theater Camp.

‘Theater Camp’ hits comedic marks

Adapted from a 2020 short film of the same name, the laugh-out-loud Theater Camp considers what Waiting for Guffman would look like if it attended Tairy Greene’s Acting Seminar for […]

Sophie Wilde stars in the new A24 horror film, Talk to Me.

A24 misses mark with latest horror film

Back in April, Evil Dead Rise brought its respective franchise back from a lengthy hiatus for more gruesome thrills at the hands of demonic entities and possessed persons alike. At […]

Cillian Murphy portrays J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s new film, Oppenheimer.

Biopic will leave you on edge of seat

Christopher Nolan has often spoken of the influence fellow British director David Lean has had on his films. But the careers of the filmmakinggiants are continuing to mirror one another […]

Tom Cruise once again brings his 'A' game to Mission: Impossible.

Latest ‘Mission’ doesn’t quite live up to hype

When Mission: Impossible — Fallout was released in 2018, many immediately heralded it as a new apex for the long-running action spy franchise and one that would be difficult to […]

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