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Anora (2024)

Anora (2024)

If Pretty Woman was a weirdly glossy whorish spin on Cinderella for the 1990s, Anora updates that spin for the 2020s by stripping away (so to speak) gauzy artifice...

Linda
Conclave (2024)

Conclave (2024)

Richard Harris’s 2016 page-turner novel is now a cinematic papal thriller that is more timely and will probably be more polarizing than I’m sure he could have imagined. The...

Linda
We Live in Time (2024)

We Live in Time (2024)

Now, I’m an easy mark when it comes to emotional manipulation. I’ll cry at a sweet commercial. I’ll cry at unearned sad scenes in movies that I actively hate....

Linda
The Apprentice (2024)

The Apprentice (2024)

If you are like me and at least 50% of the American public, you have absolutely no more mental bandwidth to spend on Donald Trump. But as I write...

Linda
The Outrun (2024)

The Outrun (2024)

As someone born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, I appreciate a gray, blustery ocean with a stark rocky beach and a wind that can take your breath away....

Linda
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

If your French-isms are a little rusty like mine, it may or may not help to know that “folie à deux” translates to “the presence of the same or...

Linda
Lee (2024) starring Kate Winslet

Lee (2024)

At first glance, Lee is a somewhat formulaic biopic centered on one person’s experiences during the horrors of World War II… but the film wastes little time establishing that...

Linda
Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)

Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)

Man, being a tween sucks. Whether you grew up in the era of social media, or in pre-historic times (like myself), the years just before high school can be...

Linda
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Already it seems like all Marvel movies are blender-made, as characters get rebooted, spun-off, and conveniently thrown into other multiverses and timelines so that even character deaths become meaningless....

Linda
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown

A Complete Unknown teaser reveals Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan

We know the man has some singing chops, yet it was still kind of hard to picture Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. Doubts can surely be laid to rest...

Linda
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

If you were already dying like Lupita Nyong’o’s character Samira, is it strange than an alien invasion would make you feel alive again? A hospice patient, she barely makes...

Linda
Thelma (2024)

Thelma (2024)

A friend of mine laughed when I called Thelma a slow-motion action movie, but it’s true! The biggest moment of nail-biting tension doesn’t involve a gun (though there is one),...

Linda