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Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes is a satire of the surveillance state, perhaps more in conversation with Lumet’s own 1976 satire of te...

Plainclothes  is baffling. Carmen Emmi has made a movie about the closet and the virtues of coming out of the closet in the year of our lor...

Twinless , directed by and starring James Sweeney is v ery funny and also creepy and strange and a bit troubling. I liked it.  Dylan O’Brien...

Gomes's brilliant film exists in three time periods simultaneously.  A man in 1917 gets cold feet and flees his fiancée following the ro...

Damn Sorry, Baby  is good. It’s so fucking smart, and so sensitively, carefully made. It’s also very funny. (Although the other people in th...

What to say about The Final Reckoning?  The sound is cool. The sound, in fact, is the best part. There’s also a very good sequence on a Russ...

Zombies are scary in general. They are living reminders of death, they are death on its way to kill you, stalking you, hunting you. (Which i...

We probably didn’t need a "live-action" (i.e. mostly-CGI) remake of How to Train Your Dragon in the year of our lord 2025. The ori...

Joseph Kosinski does it again. F1  is great. It hits every beat it needs to. The sound is amazing. The script is perfect Hollywood nonsense,...

 

Nick Hamm's  William Tell  has no right to be as boring as it is. It's a shame, too: I love me a good medieval tale. I think the rea...

Sigh. Everyone in On Swift Horses  is pretty, and the movie itself is pretty, as well. But this is one of those candy coated mid-century tal...

Final predictions for 2024 after our last three movies of the year: A Different Man 1 nomination Makeup & Hairstyling Director :  Aaron ...

And now for the remaining three movies nominated for visual effects: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 1 nomination Visual Effects Director ...

This year's animated short films include some strange selections, but then again they always do! Beurk! (Yuck!) 1 nomination Animated Sh...