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Review: ‘The White Tiger’Ramin Bahrani's Economic Satire Is Part Dickens, Part 'Scarface'

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The rage of India's permanent underclass fuels Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger, a sharp, witty crime drama that's like Dickens with a little bit...

Review: ‘Raya And The Last Dragon’Disney Delivers Sword-Swinging, High-Flying Action With Southeast Asian Flair

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It's interesting to me that Disney's Asian-inspired princesses are also in the films that are the most action-heavy. It could just be cultural, as...

Review: ‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines’A Peculiar, Kinetic, And Hilarious Apocalyptic Road Trip Comedy

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On the surface, The Mitchells vs. The Machines takes on a lot of topics we've seen done to death. The dysfunctional family whose different...

Review: ‘Take Back’Gillian White's Charisma Highlights A Middling Action Flick With A Cartoonish Mickey...

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As the landscape for female action stars gets steadily more competitive, it's always exciting to see a brand new face enter the picture. Gillian...
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Review: Marvel’s ‘What If…?’Explodes With Possibilities And Endless Potential To Reshape The MCU

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As Marvel Studios delves further into stories involving the Multiverse, a wild array of alternate realities brought to bear recently in Loki, fans are...

Review: ‘This Is The Night’'Rocky'-Inspired Coming-Of-Age Film Delivers Body Blows Of Nostalgia And Sincerity

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May 28th, 1982. That date might not mean anything to you, but it apparently meant a lot to writer/director James DeMonaco and the people...

Review: ‘Eternals’Marvel's Most Ambitious Film Is Also Sure To Be Its Most Divisive

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Despite being the undisputed juggernaut of the Hollywood landscape, the Marvel Cinematic Universe spent years being criticized for its homogenous, generic superhero movies. That...

Sundance Review: ‘After Yang’Colin Farrell Digs Through A.I. Memories In Kogonada's Thoughtful Sci-Fi Drama

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A futuristic sci-fi movie set in a world where artificial intelligence has become a dominant presence in everyday life. It doesn't sound like something...

Review: ‘X’Ti West Returns With A Wickedly Violent And Sleazy Throwback Slasher Flick

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Horror isn't always my thing, but I do like a good slasher. And lately, the more artfully done the slasher flick the more it...

Review: ‘Emergency’A Funny, Uneven, Scary Campus Satire Mixes Laughs With Racial Commentary

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*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage.* On the surface, Carey Williams’ intense college comedy Emergency looks like it traffics in...