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The stealth hit horror movie from A24 is worth the hype. Written and directed by YouTube stars Danny and Michael Philippou, the movie focuses on a group of teens obsessed with the hand of a psychic that allows you to commune with ghosts. Naturally, things go wrong in shockingly gruesome ways that will make you squirm in disgust. But the real...
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There are plenty of biopics coming out in 2023—Oppenheimer, Maestro, Napoleon, just to name a few. But if you pick just one to watch this year, let it be Rustin, which began streaming on Netflix on Friday. Colman Domingo stars as Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civil rights leader whose contribution to the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the...
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While we're all talking about David Fincher's latest release, The Killer, I suggest it's never a bad time to bring up one of his arguable masterpieces, The Social Network. Nobody gets slayed by Michael Fassbender in this one — although there are some pretty brutal one-liners from Jesse Eisenberg's Mark Zuckerberg — but it's a gripping drama...
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Full disclosure: I generally find Godzilla and other monster-related stuff fun, but not engrossing. It's mostly enjoyable for the big monster attacks, and the human story is what we all need to drudge through to get to the good stuff. Apple TV+'s canonical Monster-verse show Monarch: Legacy of Monsters flips the script, and is better for it....
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I wouldn't call The Killer—which began streaming on Netflix on Friday—David Fincher's best ever, but it's still a very good movie. Though it's a thriller about a trained assassin, it's almost a quiet film. If not quiet, at least subtle. Most of the film's "dialogue" is not conversations between characters, but an internal monologue shared via...
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Lakota Nation vs. the United States is a must-see 2023 documentary about the Lakota tribe's ongoing battle to reclaim the Black Hills in South Dakota. Directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, and executive produced by Marisa Tomei and Mark Ruffalo, the movie dissects the whitewashing of American history, which has long aimed to cover up...
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Oops, Britney Spears has done it again. More than 20 years after dominating the music scene with her hit song "Baby One More Time," the pop star has re-emerged with her own tell-all called The Woman in Me. While the book continues to climb the charts, those craving more Britney can look back on Framing Britney Spears, which was released in...
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