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Is "Dune: Part Two" the Definitive Sci-Fi Classic of the 2020s?
The second part of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi/fantasy franchise is blockbuster filmmaking of the highest grade.
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Weekend at Sundance
Parties, celebrities, and a whole lot of movie-watching!
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2023 Airplane Mode Movie Awards
A recap of moviegoing in 2023, plus my top 20 movies of the year.
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"Saltburn" is the Worst Film of 2023. Here's Why.
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2022: Year in Review
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The Academy Awards Got It Right
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The Verdict: "Babylon" is the Movie We Deserve (but not the one we need right now)
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Weekend at Sundance
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In "Asteroid City," Wes Anderson Goes Meta
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"Saltburn" is the Worst Film of 2023. Here's Why.
Emerald Fennell's follow-up to 2020's "Promising Young Woman" is a psychopathic playground of sexual schadenfreude.
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"Priscilla" is the Elvis Biopic We Deserve
Sofia Coppola's new film, about the wife of the King of Rock and Roll, unfolds with the melancholic nostalgia of a Frank Ocean album.
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"The Marvels" and the Critic-Proof Marvel Machine
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become Too Big To Fail.
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"Anatomy of a Fall" is the Best Courtroom Drama of 2023
In Justine Triet's Palme d'Or-winning story of a husband's death, postmodern ambiguity reigns supreme.
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In "Killers of the Flower Moon", Martin Scorsese Reckons with Evil, Love, Forgiveness—and Himself
Scorsese's latest, set amid the early-twentieth-century Osage Indian murders, is a virtuosic late-career work that investigates the essence of American…
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Why Netflix's New Vampire Movie Is Also About Right-Wing Politics
In Pablo Larraín's "El Conde", Chilean autocrat Augusto Pinochet is a 250-year-old bloodsucker with a penchant for authoritarian oppression.
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"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" is Nostalgic and Original
The Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg-produced resurrection of age-old IP infuses Gen Z culture with 1990s nostalgia.
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