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Review: Smile

Stressed to kill.

Kurt Loder | 9.30.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Anvil! The Story of Anvil

The little band that couldn’t.

Kurt Loder | 9.16.2022 7:25 AM

Javier Barden as Blanco in The Good Boss

Review: The Good Boss

Funny business.

Kurt Loder | 9.2.2022 7:30 AM

Aubrey Plaza in Emily the Criminal

Review: Emily the Criminal

Aubrey Plaza gets in touch with her inner badass.

Kurt Loder | 8.19.2022 7:30 AM

Brad Pitt and Bad Bunny in Bullet Train

Review: Bullet Train

Running late.

Kurt Loder | 8.5.2022 7:30 AM

Daniel Kaluuya on a horse in the desert during the movie 'Nope'

Review: Nope

Not quite.

Kurt Loder | 7.22.2022 7:30 AM

Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder

Review: Thor: Love and Thunder

Please, hammer…

Kurt Loder | 7.8.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise’s long-delayed return flight.

Kurt Loder | 5.27.2022 9:57 AM

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Review: The Innocents

The kids are all wrong.

Kurt Loder | 5.13.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Dual and Hatching

Fright nights.

Kurt Loder | 4.29.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Nicolas Cage in the action-movie metaverse.

Kurt Loder | 4.22.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Another return to Potterville.

Kurt Loder | 4.15.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Memoria

Art attack.

Kurt Loder | 4.1.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Speed demons.

Kurt Loder | 3.25.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: The Batman

Pro and con.

Kurt Loder | 3.4.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Kimi

Zoë Kravitz in Steven Soderbergh’s tough little cyber thriller.

Kurt Loder | 2.18.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Moonfall

In space, no one can hear you blowing money.

Kurt Loder | 2.4.2022 10:25 AM

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Review: The King's Daughter

Many moments too soon.

Kurt Loder | 1.21.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: The 355

Ladies only.

Kurt Loder | 1.7.2022 7:30 AM

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Review: Licorice Pizza

Squalls of flak suddenly surround one of the year’s most loveable movies.

Kurt Loder | 12.31.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Nightmare Alley

Going Down Again.

Kurt Loder | 12.17.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: House of Gucci

Lady Gaga kills.

Kurt Loder | 11.24.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: C'mon C'mon

Family ties.

Kurt Loder | 11.19.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Belfast

Hard times.

Kurt Loder | 11.12.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Last Night in Soho

Vintage creeps.

Kurt Loder | 10.29.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Dune and The Velvet Underground

Back to the future, out of the past

Kurt Loder | 10.15.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: No Time To Die

Daniel Craig’s final Bond outing is a little bit droopy

Kurt Loder | 10.1.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Jesus wept.

Kurt Loder | 9.17.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Daddy issue.

Kurt Loder | 9.3.2021 9:47 AM

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Review: Reminiscence

Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson in a neo-hardboiled sci-fi mystery.

Kurt Loder | 8.20.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: The Suicide Squad

Second time around.

Kurt Loder | 8.6.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Old and Pig

Nicolas Cage back at his best, M. Night Shyamalan not.

Kurt Loder | 7.23.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Black Widow

Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh lead Marvel into a new age.

Kurt Loder | 7.9.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: False Positive

The kids aren't all right.

Kurt Loder | 6.25.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Censor and Flashback

Blood and confusion.

Kurt Loder | 6.11.2021 12:00 PM

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Review: A Quiet Place Part II

Come on, feel the noise.

Kurt Loder | 5.28.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Wrath of Man and The Columnist

Guy Ritchie returns (with Jason Statham, wisely) and a Dutch woman discovers the ultimate cure for online menacing.

Kurt Loder | 5.7.2021 7:30 AM

TOGETHER

Review: Together Together and Sisters With Transistors

Modern love and future sounds.

Kurt Loder | 4.23.2021 6:30 AM

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Review: Voyagers

In space, no one can hear you snooze.

Kurt Loder | 4.9.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Ecstasy

The weight of the world.

Kurt Loder | 3.26.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Another Round

The Danish film is getting some well-deserved Oscar buzz.

Kurt Loder | 3.12.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: The Father

Anthony Hopkins at the latest peak of his power.

Kurt Loder | 2.26.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Judas and the Black Messiah

Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield revisit the horror of a civil rights battlefield of the 1960s.

Kurt Loder | 2.12.2021 7:30 AM

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Review: Saint Maud

Mind game.

Kurt Loder | 1.29.2021 7:00 AM

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Review: Promising Young Woman

More violence, please.

Kurt Loder | 1.15.2021 7:00 AM

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Review: Fatman

A Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins Christmas

Kurt Loder | 11.13.2020 7:00 AM

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The Witches

Bad girls.

Kurt Loder | 10.30.2020 7:00 AM

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Reviews: Love and Monsters and J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius

A good teens-and-creatures movie, and a deep dive into a glorious fake cult

Kurt Loder | 10.16.2020 7:00 AM

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