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Jackpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in a world full of people who are proud to…
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The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland (Nick Jonas) during one of his omnipresent bouts…
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Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a tricky thought exercise. What if you find out…
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Dìdi
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to discover my initial gut reaction might have been…
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Hundreds of Beavers
“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly wordless slapstick comedy about a 19th-century trapper doing battle with nature, exceeds expectations…
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The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as Batman’s sidekick or a WWII veteran who escapes…
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 hymn to the power of imagination (I gift…
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Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words being spelled out letter by letter. The time…
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Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha abhaile,” a traditional Irish song, in the Irish…
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Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy “The End of Us”) for their sophomore feature,…
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