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28 Years Later
A group of survivors of the rage virus lives on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors. more »
Friendship
A suburban dad falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor. more »
Life of Chuck
A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. more »
Materialists
A matchmaker's lucrative business is complicated when she falls into a toxic love triangle that threatens her clients. more »
Sinners
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. more »
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The Elephant Man
David Lynch followed up the mold-breaking Eraserhead with perhaps his most classically Hollywood feature, and his most deeply affecting. John Hurt’s embodiment of the title character astonishes, but the film is really about how the other characters see and react to him. Anthony Hopkins, for one, reacts exquisitely. -Lee Gardner more »
A Tale of Summer
Melvil Poupaud’s feckless young man heads for a beach town solo to mope, play guitar, and wait for his on/off girlfriend to arrive. He soon finds himself unsuccessfully juggling several young women, including anthropologist/waitress Amanda Langlet. One of Éric Rohmer’s most charming and amusing chatfests, enhanced by the sun-bak more »
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Jurassic World Rebirth
Five years post-Jurassic World Dominion, an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough. more »
Crash
Sex. Death. Sex and death. David Cronenberg plays all the hits in his adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel about a group of turned-on car-crash enthusiasts who go further and further in their pursuit of souped-up kicks. James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, and Holly Hunter kink up the screen, despite Spader’s character’ more »
Journey to Italy
George Sanders plays a man who is somehow tired of being married to Ingrid Bergman, who plays his similarly ennui-laden spouse. A trip to Italy exposes the faults in their relationship. That’s pretty much it, but Roberto Rosselini’s direction and the lovely performances make it feel like grand drama. -Lee Gardner more »
Wild at Heart
David Lynch dips into Southern Gothic and hardboiled noir for his lurid yet sweet adaptation of Barry Gifford’s novel. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern star as lovers on the run, abetted and thwarted by a cast of Lynch regulars and the occasional ‘90s indie staple (e.g. Willem Dafoe). Once again, Dern is the secret MVP. -Lee Gardner more »
Hot Spring Shark Attack
This “unhinged” deep-sea nightmare follows a sleepy hot spring town in Japan that gets a rude awakening when an ancient, bloodthirsty shark resurfaces to terrorize the local bathhouses. The townspeople must band together to save their steamy paradise, leading to a battle for the ages. After winning the Audience Award at the 202 more »
Act of Violence
Ex-G.I. Robert Ryan is bent on revenge against his former best friend and Army buddy Van Helfin, who sold out their comrades to the Nazis. Phyllis Thaxter and a young Janet Leigh play the women caught between them. Journeyman director Fred Zinneman’s inky-black noir wows with its inexorable story and grim fatalism. Fantastic e more »
Idiocracy
Mike Judge followed up Office Space with a vicious satire about our increasingly enshittified society. It made nary a peep in theaters but now scans like Nostradamus. Luke Wilson plays a regular bro who, hundreds of years in the future, stands as the de facto smartest man in America. The whole thing runs out of gas before the en more »
Sorry, Baby
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on - for everyone around her, at least. more »
The Gang’s All Here
Brazilian icon Carmen Miranda gets second billing but mainly serves as wacky “ethnic” comic relief. The real star, of course, is director Busby Berkeley’s trademark elaborate musical numbers, especially the Miranda-sung “The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat” and the completely insane finale. As corny as Kansas but a visual and music more »
Hackers
There’s nothing quite as ridiculous as a past vision of the future, especially one as Hollywood try-hard as this. Jonny Lee Miller and a baby Angelina Jolie lead a team of techie teens out to fight The Man, embodied by Fisher Stevens. Everyone spouts goofy jargon and would-be zingers, rollerblades everywhere, and tries their bes more »
The Empire Strikes Back
For many years, the second Star Wars film was considered The Good One—darker, more complex, romantic. Whatever the current rankings, it’s still pretty good. Great set pieces, interesting character stuff, Billy Dee Williams, and no Ewoks. -Lee Gardner more »
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick’s return to filmmaking after a 20-year hiatus combined the poetic spirit and visual sumptuousness of Badlands and Days of Heaven with a new break from Hollywood formalism—cue the cryptic voiceovers. He applied his new method to the venerable war-movie genre but found moving and richly rewarding new life in it. Hi more »
Commando
There are certainly better ‘80s action movies, but Commando is the most ‘80s-action-movie ‘80s action movie, and probably the most fun to watch with an audience. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the titular badass, who’s lured out of retirement to rescue his tween daughter from some grudge-holding bad guys and a literal army of squib more »
ÉL
A dark gem from Luis Bunuel’s Mexican period. Arturo de Córdova’s suave gentleman sweeps Delia Garcés off her feet, but soon after wedding bells ring, she discovers he’s a paranoid creep. His madness and violence soon escalate. An incisive portrait of domestic abuse heightened by the director’s skill and audacity. -Lee Gardner more »
The Fly
David Cronenberg wastes not a second in putting Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis together onscreen, because that’s the whole movie—their exquisite chemistry fuels what ends up as much a tragic romance as a sci-fi remake. Arguably the pinnacle of Cronenberg’s “body horror” period, and it’s paced like a drag race. more »
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Today the disappearance of three schoolgirls and their minder would be a lurid true-crime tale or fodder for drawn-out “limited series” dramatic peekaboo. But Peter Weir’s breakout concocts a hypnotic haze of innocence, ardor, repression, suggestion, and emotional weight that utterly beguiles. A perfect cinema enigma. -Lee Gardn more »
The Hills Have Eyes
In the ‘70s, few things scared moviegoers more than deranged rural people. Wes Craven cemented his budding horror career with this Texas Chainsaw Massacre homage that pits a roadtripping whitebread family (Dee Wallace makes clear why she’s the only one who had a bigger career) against mutant desert cannibals (ditto for Michael B more »
Yojimbo
Toshiro Mifune invented the modern action hero in Akira Kurosawa’s classic. The former’s grungy ronin wanders into a village and right into the middle of a gang war, only to turn the factions' venality and dim wits to his advantage. Tatsuya Nakadai co-stars as a bonus badass. Fantastic score, too. -Lee Gardner more »
True Romance
Tony Scott applied his visual verve and blockbuster sensibilities to one of Quentin Tarantino’s early scripts and delivered an instructive contrast to the latter’s style. Scott is less wink-y and puts real muscle behind the beats of this love-on-the-run/crime-flick/Hollywood-sendup mashup. He also knows how to shoot dialogue wit more »
The Jungle Book
A bunch of cartoon predators adopt a defenseless human infant instead of eating it. Comedy hijinks with a mid-century hepcat bias and some pretty decent songs ensue. Disney’s adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s India-set stories is charming and surprisingly unproblematic for being nearly 60 years old. -Lee Gardner more »
