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Brent Leuthold

Brent Leuthold

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Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), left, and Kang The Conquerer (Jonathan Majors) square off in the latest entry in the MCU, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quanumania.

New supervillian introduced into MCU

Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets off to a fun start with Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, the third and likely final standalone for the Avenger named after […]
The upcoming Apple TV+ film Sharper stars Briana Middleton and Justice Smith.

Film about con artists only fools itself

Streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, Feb. 17, the new psychological thriller Sharper is a movie about con artists that cons itself into thinking it’s sharper than it really is.  […]
Knock at the Cabin stars, from left, Dave Bautista, Abby Quinn, and Nikki Amuka-Bird.

Thriller struggles to keep suspense

Due to the overwhelming popularity of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan has been pigeonholed as a director whose films always have a twist ending.  While some of […]
Alexander Skarsgård stars as a struggling novelist in the horror film "Infinity Pool."

‘Infinity Pool’ could put viewers in over heads

Infinity Pool, the new nightmare vision from Possessor writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, finds itself at the intersection of two thematic landscapes that have captured the zeitgeist as of late.  Hit shows […]
Storm Reid stars as a tech-savvy teen searching for her mother in Missing.

Familial bond missing from new thriller

A spiritual sequel, of sorts, to 2018’s Searching, the new thriller Missing stars Storm Reid as June Allen, a bright but troubled teen who has butted heads with her mom, Grace […]
Finn Wolfhard and Julianne Moore star as son and mother in the new A24 film, When You Finish Saving the World, showing Jan. 21 at Cinema Center.

Narcissism at center of indie film

Playing at Cinema Center this weekend, the indie dramedy When You Finish Saving the World stars Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard as Ziggy Katz, a high school student desperately trying to […]
A doll designed to serve as a companion quickly becomes much more sinister in M3GAN.

Better writing could help dull doll thriller

Dolls are creepy. Between the lifeless porcelain-eyed gaze and the unnatural permanent smile, it’s no surprise that filmmakers have gotten plenty of mileage from including them in horror movies for […]
Cate Blanchett gave a stunning performance in Brent Leuthold’s top movie of 2022, Tár.

Counting down top movies of 2022

Audiences slowly, but surely, began venturing back out to theaters worldwide in 2022, giving the movie industry a much needed bounce back after the pandemic shut things down the prior […]
Daniel Craig reprises his role as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Whodunit sequel exceeds predecessor

After delivering a modern whodunit classic with Knives Out a few years ago, writer/director Rian Johnson captures lightning in a bottle again with Glass Onion, a murder-mystery whose delights somehow […]