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The Drama (2026)

The Drama (2026)

When we meet Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson) days before their wedding, they’re cute puppy dogs in love. The preparations are exciting, and their anticipation buzzes as they...

Linda
Pillion (2025)

Pillion (2025)

“It’s not a bear movie, it’s an otter movie!” a woman opined outside the theater after the early screening of Pillion. It’s true: Alexander Skarsgård is too sleek to...

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

In A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, there’s an underlying assumption that everyone—certainly everyone who shows up at a wedding—should be coupled up. David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie)...

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Materialists (2025)

Materialists (2025)

How many inches do you require in order to date a man? Is that number non-negotiable? But what if he had a good personality? Oh, that doesn’t matter, you...

Linda
Queer (2024)

Queer (2024)

Queer is a film soaked in sweat. Sweat from lust, sweat from sex, sweat from drug withdrawal. And of course sweat from heat, as the characters go from sweltering...

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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
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
Shortcomings (2023)

Shortcomings (2023)

Many navel-gazing indie flicks swirl around a tried and true trope: the urban neurotic, narcissistic, sarcastic, self-pitying, supposedly irresistible man-child that pines about unattainable women, unattainable jobs, and how...

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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...

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Anything's Possible

Anything’s Possible (2022)

Kesha (Eva Reign) is confident and beautiful and Khal (Abubakr Ali) is kind and sweet. They are two adorable high school seniors who cutely and awkwardly start full-on crushing...

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Firebird (2022)

Firebird (2022)

In 1977 Soviet-occupied Estonia, Sergey (Tom Prior) is a young military conscript who is mere weeks from the end of his service. He spends his time sneaking out and...

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I Want You Back

I Want You Back (2022)

Romcoms are a special sort of comfort food, like a big bowl of caramel popcorn, a fuzzy blanket, and soft pants. The setup is totally formulaic: You know that...

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