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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Territory

The Territory (2022)

The Uru-eu-wau-wau are an extremely small Indigenous tribe (population about 180) in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Not contacted by “civilized” folks until the 1980s, they continue to live...

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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...

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Thirteen Lives

Thirteen Lives (2022)

Do you get claustrophobic? Do you have a fear of getting buried alive and/or drowning? Then Thirteen Lives may not be the most relaxing viewing for you. For the...

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Nope

Nope (2022)

There is a moment in Nope, Jorden Peele’s latest in his surprising and very welcome career as a filmmaker: OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), a very mild-mannered rancher races home 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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Fire of Love (2022)

Fire of Love (2022)

Two French volcanologists meet and fall in love in the late 60s, have an explosive and volcanic relationship, both with each other and with the volcanos that they love,...

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Delia Owens’ 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing was (and continues to be) a blockbuster of a book. By the beginning of 2022, it had sold 12 million copies,...

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Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

In our previous chapter with Thor the Space Viking, director Taika Waititi (mercifully) unleashed Chris Hemsworth’s untapped comedy skills, reviving the dullest Marvel series with probably the weirdest, and...

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The Black Phone

The Black Phone (2022)

Like many people, I like a good scare. And like any other kid who grew up in the 70s, I knew that all I had to do at the...

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