"Love Lies Bleeding is the first truly great film of 2024. Director Rose Glass delivers on the promise vividly showcased in her 2019 debut Saint Maude, unleashing a twisted, surrealistic neo-noir thriller that craftily defies easy categorization. Funny, shocking, and emotionally intoxicating at an almost primordial level, this chaotic love story is an imaginative blast of character-driven nitroglycerin and is guaranteed to be one of the year’s best."
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Lovely, Dark, and Deep 2023
"There is nothing kind about writer-director Teresa Sutherland’s haunting suspense yarn Lovely, Dark, and Deep. Much like her screenplay for 2018’s female-driven Western The Wind, there is danger to be found in the quiet of the forest. In the darkness, fleeting movements rustling just out of eyesight may not be as benign as one assumes. Nature plays tricks upon a weary mind, and right side up becomes upside down in the blink of an eye."
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The Lion in Winter 1968
"What can I say? I adore The Lion in Winter, and even if it can’t entirely escape its theatrical roots, this vividly realized yet still dynamically character-driven epic is an absolute all-timer I could watch on repeat for days on end and never grow tired of."
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Kung Fu Panda 4 2024
"Kung Fu Panda 4 does not rise to the lofty heights of 2008’s Kung Fu Panda or its 2011 sequel Kung Fu Panda 2. It does, however, maintain the perfectly pleasant, endearingly entertaining charm found in 2016’s Kung Fu Panda 3. While this installment in the popular DreamWorks animated series does not deliver on the inherent promise of its clever premise (panda Dragon Warrior Po, voiced by Jack Black, must stop baddie The Chameleon — who is literally a chameleon…
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Straight Outta Compton 2015
"The genius of the film, a labor of love for all involved and a passion project for Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E’s wife Tomica Woods-Wright for over a decade, is that I don’t have to relate, I just have to understand. Gray, along with screenwriters Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center), plop the viewer into the center of things, ask us to listen to what it is these masterful musicians and lyricists are saying, to stop focusing…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016
"But the main reason the film works as well as it does is that Edwards and his crew treat the material like they’re making a hard-hitting WWII epic in the vein of Battleground or Attack, only also one mixed with the likes of The Dirty Dozen, The Big Red One and Where Eagles Dare, a healthy dose of Platoon and The Thin Red Line thrown in for good measure. This is a gritty film, one where the stakes for these…