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Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

I went in to Avatar: The Way of Water admittedly very cynical. Let’s just put it this way: I kind of hated 2009’s Avatar. I was annoyed by the...

Linda
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

Before seeing All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, I was unfamiliar with photographer Nan Goldin’s art but I had heard about her group’s activism. In the last few years,...

Linda
Ticket to Paradise

Ticket to Paradise (2022)

Writer/director Ol Parker certainly knows his way around a breezy comedy with heart. Here at Moviepie, we’ve been big fans of his work from Imagine Me & You, to...

Linda
The Inspection (2022)

The Inspection (2022)

Ellis (Jeremy Pope), a sweet 20-something gay Black man with a dimpled smile, whiles away his days at an urban homeless shelter. While watching TV one evening, he sees...

Linda
The Fabelmans

The Fabelmans (2022)

The parental figures in The Fabelmans are apparently based squarely on director Steven Spielberg’s own mom and dad. In their idyllic 1950s home, mom Mitzi (Michelle Williams) is the...

Linda
My Policeman

My Policeman (2022)

Harry Styles as an actor (so far, at least) is the type where you want to give him the benefit of the doubt, because (bless his heart) he’s a...

Linda
Till

Till (2022)

If you have any sense of U.S. history, you’ll watch Till with an impending sense of doom. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago that was lynched in...

Linda
Amsterdam (2022)

Amsterdam (2022)

In 1933 New York, two best friends (and veterans from World War I), find out that their beloved general from their battalion has died of mysterious circumstances on his...

Linda
Catherine Called Birdy

Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

It’s the year 1291, and everything is about to change for young Catherine (Bella Ramsey), the spirited 14-year-old daughter of the lord and lady of the village of Stonebridge....

Linda
See How They Run

See How They Run (2022)

It’s 1950s in London’s West End, and the uber-popular stage show of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” has reached a milestone with its 100th performance. Caddish American director Leo Kopernick...

Linda
The Woman King

The Woman King (2022)

When I walked out of the theater after seeing The Woman King, I marveled to a group of women, “This is such an interesting piece of history… I can’t...

Linda
Burial (2022)

Burial (2022)

There is a really great plot idea in Burial: In 1945, at the tail-end of World War II, a small band of Soviet soldiers is tasked with secretly hauling...

Linda