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‘The Bad Guys 2’ Saves Very Best for Last
Piere Perifel’s “The Bad Guys 2” is a nice surprise, an initially middle-of-the-road follow-up to 2022’s sleeper that hits the…
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‘Sketch’ – Heartfelt Message, Scary Results
Seth Worley’s “Sketch” is an odd film that sports creativity but winds up somehow both predictable and bizarre as a…
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‘Together ‘ Makes Monogamy a Body Horror Nightmare
Michael Shanks’ “Together” begins with a prologue informing us that, within a small town, a couple has gone missing and…
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‘Ghost Dog’ – Part John Wick, All Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch’s “Ghost Dog – The Way of the Samurai” (2000) shouldn’t work at all. Here is a hybrid hitman…
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Why ‘Fantastic Four’ Fizzled the First Time Around
Tim Story’s “Fantastic Four” (2005) was the first big-budget adaptation of Marvel’s “The Fantastic Four.” It arrived 20 years ago…
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‘Oh, Hi!’ Takes Rom-Coms in Bracing New Direction
Sophie Brooks’ “Oh, Hi!” gets its title from a cornball pun on Ohio and a sign visible in a small…
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How Penn’s ‘Crossing Guard’ Brought Out Best in Nicholson
Sean Penn’s “The Crossing Guard” (1995) marked the star’s second film as writer/director (the first being 1991’s “The Indian Runner”)…
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‘Wonder Boys’ at 25: The College Mindset, Defined
Curtis Hanson’s “Wonder Boys” (2000) is my college movie, the film I look to when I think back to not…
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‘Explorers’ at 40: How Joe Dante Captured Childhood Awe, Wonder
If “The Goonies” was written by Carl Sagan, it might have resembled “Explorers,” the 1985 fantasy that director Joe Dante…
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‘Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure’ at 40: This Man-Child Never Grows Old
“Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” (1985), Tim Burton’s debut feature film, is a perfect synchronization of star and filmmaker. Burton, the wunderkind…
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