Maggie Q plays a toughened, yet damaged, Iraqi war veteran named Tes who begrudgingly accompanies her sisters to their parents’ farmhouse way out in the desert for a bachelorette party. Her sister Beth (Kat Foster), a Stepford Wife with an…
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Film at Lincoln Center and Janus Films announced an incredible retrospective from July 7-13: “The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache” celebrating the career of the iconoclastic French post-New Wave director. “The films I made are as autobiographical as fiction can…
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Loving French director Francois Ozon as I do, I shouldn’t have been surprised that he could transform a seemingly depressing premise about an elderly stroke victim who demands his daughters find a way for him to end his life into…
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Is the epic, non-stop action orgy called John Wick: Chapter 4 too much of a good thing? Probably, but, as I was sitting in my theater seat with my jaw unhinged for nearly three hours in such a state of…
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Director Carter Smith’s new film is a nightmarish, nerve-shredding, queer love story/body horror film. Two best friends are spending a final night on the town together in Maine. Long-haired, tattooed Dom (Jose Colon) is straight and his handsome buddy Benjamin…
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If you think you’ve seen how horrible the wealthy can be at ritzy resorts by watching The White Lotus you still will be unprepared when you experience Brandon Cronenberg’s bizarre, twisted, hallucinatory- Infinity Pool. Alexander Skarsgard plays James Foster, an…
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Quietly devastating film by Alice Diop about Rama (stunning Kayije Kagame), a writer and professor attending the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), a Franco-Senegalese graduate student, who murdered her 15-month-old baby on a beach in France. Laurence is enigmatic…
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For as long as I can remember I’ve always ended the year with a “10 Best & Worst” list. But that was back when I was a film critic and rabid about seeing as many movies as possible during the…
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Hunt Is a propulsive, action-packed South Korean spy thriller directed and starring Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game). It begins in Washington D.C. in 1983 during a botched assassination attempt on the South Korean president, whose authoritarian regime has caused student uprisings…
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By all means, make a reservation to see The Menu, a fiendishly enjoyable dark comedy, smartly directed by Mark Mylod and topped with a fabulously sardonic performance by Ralph Fiennes. The plot concerns a group of well-heeled epicureans, arriving by…
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