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The Darkest Minds’ YA Dystopia Isn’t as Compelling as Its Excellent Young AdultsAugust 10 at 7 a.m. by Alan Scherstuhl -
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman Is Every Kind of Movie It Can BeAugust 6 at 7 a.m. by Bilge Ebiri -
Tag Is Often Pretty Gloriously Dumb, So Too Bad It Also Seems to Want to Be MoreJune 14 at 8:33 a.m. by Bilge Ebiri -
The Likable Summer of 84 Pits Horndog Teens Against the Serial Killer Next DoorAugust 13 at 7 a.m. by Alan Scherstuhl -
Rob Reiner’s Shock and Awe Takes on Bush’s War and the New York Times — and WinsJuly 10 at 11:08 a.m. by Alan Scherstuhl -
The Meg Only Triumphs When It Accepts Its Full SillinessAugust 8 at 7 a.m. by Alan Scherstuhl
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Scandal ensues when the charming Nick Young (Henry Golding), secretly heir to a wealthy Chinese-Singaporean real estate fortune, brings his accomplished, lower-class Chinese-American girlfriend, Rachel Chu (Fresh Off The Boat’s Constance...
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Though Moselle’s narrative feature debut, Skate Kitchen, tells a fictional story, the director again draws heavily from her subjects’ own personal histories, this time constructing a story about teen girls finding themselves and each other...
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After receiving a 1,000-piece jigsaw as a gift at that party, Agnes discovers a surprise talent and passion: She can put one together in just a chunk of an afternoon
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The plot concerns skinny dreamer Davey, a fanatic for the Bigfoot creatures and aliens of supermarket tabloids, suddenly convinced that the loner cop (Rich Sommer) who lives across the street must be a serial killer responsible for a spate of...
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Through the stories of how these teens ended up at God’s Promise, Cameron Post suggests the rigid hegemony of American life, the all-too-common story of religious belief perverted in the service of fitting in
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An assemblage of TV clips sets the stage: Ninety percent of all children have died within the space of a month, with the survivors gaining a variety of superpowers that the government catalogs in a color-coded chart ripped right from the Bush...
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For most of The Meg, Jon Turteltaub's dino-shark thriller goof, the badass hero played by Jason Statham blithely achieves the impossible. Here's a dude who rides on the side of history's largest shark like some alpha male lamprey, jabbing...
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Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman is a tonal roller coaster, and therein lies much of its unique power. It's alternatingly comic, heroic, tragic, horrifying, ridiculous, dead serious, clear-eyed and confused; it shifts into moments of documentary...
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