Expectations are a tricky thing with movies, and it can be hard to temper them when some cinema staff will go so far as to
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The Wild Robot (2024)
It’s been a great year for animated robots, first with Robot Dreams this past summer, and now Chris Sanders’s film adaptation of the popular children’s
Didi (2024)
Sean Wang’s deeply personal story is, in his words, a “thank you, I’m sorry, and I love you” to his family and friends of his
Snack Shack (2024)
Period piece coming of age films are timeless and will never be in short supply, but the time periods the films tend to be set
Robot Dreams (2024)
Pablo Berger’s latest film Robot Dreams is described in the first line of its Wikipedia entry as “animated tragicomedy”, which feels both accurate but also
The Taste of Things (2023)
As the saying goes, film is a visual medium. But it’s often easy to overlook the importance of sound, even though the introduction of synchronized
Past Lives (2023)
The alluring, almost irresistible idea of “what if” has often been explored in films, but rarely so precisely and so poignantly as playwright and first-time
The Holdovers (2023)
Alexander Payne is one of our great working directors, but he’s hardly the most prolific. It’s been 6 years since Downsizing, Payne’s previous and rather
Fools Rush In (1997)
It’s been a week since Matthew Perry’s death and while the world is still coping with the loss of of one of our ubiquitous “Friends”,
Talk to Me (2023)
It’s scary movie season, but even as horror films remain one of the most important and profitable component of theatrical moviegoing, there always seem to
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