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  Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot a Bumpy Ride

  Kristen Yoonsoo Kim | July 16 at 6 a.m.

  Despite some distracting narrative choices and sketchy character development (especially with Mara’s character, who, of course, turns into a love interest), the film does eventually find its footing

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  Eugene Jarecki’s The King Loads Elvis and America Into a Wood Chipper Aimed at Your Face

  Alan Scherstuhl | July 16 at 6 a.m.

  ... It’s as scattered and disorienting as the infamous LP Having Fun With Elvis On Stage, an official cheapie that consisted of nothing but the King’s between-songs ‘70s stage banter

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  Skyscraper Sure Has a Lot of Mass Shootings for a Family-Time Adventure Movie

  Alan Scherstuhl | July 11 at 6 a.m.

  Skyscraper is a family-bonding adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell and two elementary-aged children who are as good at appearing darling (in the early scenes) as they are at playacting the role of traumatized hostages (in the...

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  Hotel Transylvania 3: the Right Kind of Disposable Fun

  Bilge Ebiri | July 13 at 1 a.m.

  Van Helsing is a distant memory by the time we reach Dracula (aka Drac) in the present day, feeling lonely at Hotel Transylvania, his secret resort run by and for monsters, where demonic creatures and other surreal abominations of nature are...

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  Rob Reiner’s Shock and Awe Takes on Bush’s War and the New York Times — and Wins

  Alan Scherstuhl | July 10 at 11:08 a.m.

  Shock and Awe is a 90-minute liberal told-you-so, a polemic that, like a long Rachel Maddow segment, is more cheery than thunderous, even as it names the names that must be named

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  Three Identical Strangers: Don't Read This Review, Just Go See the Movie

  Bilge Ebiri | July 9 at 7 a.m.

  The film even confronts its own audience in some ways, as it goes from a tale of three people learning more about their identities, to one about the very nature of human identity itself …

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  Brainstorming the Revolution with Sorry to Bother You Director Boots Riley

  Lara Zarum | July 4 at 1 a.m.

  Sorry to Bother You sings in a voice all its own, thanks to the righteous vision of Riley, known for his 1990s hip-hop group the Coup and his vocal support for labor rights

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  Purge Series’ New Prequel Makes Previous Episodes Look Subtle

  Bilge Ebiri | July 6 at 10:41 a.m.

  ... There’s an urgency and an anger this time around that helps paper over some of the story’s messiness, as well as some of the awkward drama of trying to explain where this whole crazy Purge idea actually came from