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The Amateur (2025)

The Amateur (2025)

Charlie (Rami Malek) is a type of man that usually never gets to be an action hero. He’s nerdy coder or decrypter (or something) at the CIA, literally working...

Linda
G20 (2025)

G20 (2025)

There’s something about G20 that reminds me of a good old-fashioned 90s popcorn action-flick. The substance is shallow, the characters are either cartoonishly noble or crazy-eyed bad, and the...

Linda
Novocaine (2025)

Novocaine (2025)

Jack Quaid plays Nate Cain, a kind of dorky, buttoned-up middle-manager at a bank. He’s a sweet but reserved young man who happens to be crushing hard on the...

Linda
Last Breath (2025)

Last Breath (2025)

Harrowing, ripped-from-the-headlines stories of survival are inherently cinematic. Extraordinary stories of heroic folks pulling together to save others, whether dozens of trapped miners, or in this case, a single...

Linda
Babygirl (2024)

Babygirl (2024)

Nicole Kidman plays Romy, a modern boss bitch–a strong, power-player CEO at her own company. She has a beautiful husband (beautiful Antonio Banderas), a couple of teens, and the...

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
Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

The Coen Brothers, even with their occasional misfires, are a magic moviemaking duo. But in Ethan Coen’s solo directorial debut, adapting a screenplay by his wife Tricia Cooke, he...

Linda
The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom, Jr.), a single dad with a 12-year-old daughter, has good reason to have lost religion. He saw his pregnant wife die while they were on...

Linda
The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)

Now, as a non-believer, I unabashedly love the genre of religious horror. Show me someone possessed by a demon, or an evil flying angel, or an unfortunate victim getting...

Linda
Missing (2023)

Missing (2023)

What is more terrifying? The fact that technology traces almost every aspect of one’s daily life so that it is almost impossible to truly disappear? Or the fact that...

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
Bullet Train (2022)

Bullet Train (2022)

Since Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, and Robert Rodriguez and their ilk first started riddling the screen with rapid-fire dialogue to complement equally rapid-fire bullets, the quippy, self-aware ultra-violent action...

Linda