USA
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J. K. Rowling delivers the second of her Potterverse prequels, upping the ante and layering on the allegory. But does it balance the light with the dark sufficiently for younger… Read More
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As if the horrors of war weren’t terrifying enough, producer J.J. Abrams pits a squad of inexperienced second world war paratroopers against a cadre of Nazi scientists and their mutant… Read More
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Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario was one of my favourite films of 2015. The sequel does without many of the key players, most notably Emily Blunt, Roger Deakins and Villeneuve, but remembers… Read More
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It’s Gerard Butler on a submarine…what more do you need to know? (at 31:44) Read More
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In 1978, John Carpenter first unleashed the faceless killer Michael Myers on an unsuspecting population of precocious teenagers, giving rise to the slasher genre and changing the horror landscape forever.… Read More
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Bradley Cooper reveals himself to be a more than competent musician and an excellent director in this reimagining of the classic narrative, as a washed-up rock star who discovers the… Read More
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Pretty, precocious teens meet their grisly end at a Halloween themed theme park in this derivative and occasionally nasty slasher. (at 11:30) Read More
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John Cho becomes the first Asian American actor ever to headline a mainstream Hollywood thriller in Aneesh Chaganty’s inventive webcam drama about a father searching for his missing daughter. Read More
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Damien Chazelle follows up his best director Oscar win for La La Land with a thrilling re-enactment of mankind’s giant leap. Ryan Gosling is perfectly cast as Neil Armstrong, the… Read More
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14 years after his Palme D’Or winning Fahrenheit 9/11, documentarian Michael Moore seizes the opportunity to conveniently flip his title and train his satirical eye on American politics once again.… Read More
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Tom Hardy gets his beak wet in the superhero genre once more, as journalist Eddie Brock who becomes infected by a nasty alien symbiote that morphs him into a Jeckyll… Read More
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Julianne Moore’s involvement in a project is normally as reliable a validation of quality filmmaking as one could hope for. But in the case of Bel Canto, Paul Weitz’s adaptation… Read More
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It has been 31 years since the predator first landed on Earth to pick a fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Four wildly inferior sequels later, it falls to writer-director Shane Black… Read More
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After discovering an out-of-this-world weapon, a teenage boy finds himself on the run with his ex-con brother and a stripper from the authorities, a vicious gangster and some otherworldly enforcers.… Read More
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Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin star in the true story of two young lovers, who agree to sail a yacht across the Pacific, blissfully unaware they are heading into one… Read More
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In his deeply unsettling feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster subjects a grieving suburban family to unspeakable supernatural horrors. While much of mainstream horror looks to recapture the commercial success of… Read More
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Word had travelled across the pond following the world premiere of Krzykowski’s debut feature, that it had failed to deliver on the promise of its schlocky, tongue-in-cheek. What that means,… Read More
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Hollywood offers the first all-Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in this blockbuster adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s bestseller. Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh star in this watershed… Read More
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