It’s not impossible to imagine a world where Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland swapped careers.
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First Love (1939)
Author: Dan Stalcup
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
It takes a special breed of actor for the name alone to be a brand and a promise to the viewer, but Douglas Fairbanks achieved that during his career.
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Sorry, Baby (2025)
Sorry, Baby is an absolute miracle of tone control.
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Loser (2000)
It’s always amusing when a song from a movie’s soundtrack ends up outliving the film itself.
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KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
I am skeptical of platitudes hastily awarded to any animated feature premiering on Netflix in recent years.
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Eddington (2025)
On film social media, much virtual ink has been spilled anointing Eddington a future cult classic:
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Materialists (2025)
Celine Song was presumably given a pretty wide creative runway, plus access to budget and talent, to make her second film following the buzzy Best Picture nominee Past Lives.
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Doctor Dolittle (1998)
We used to be a country.
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Doctor Dolittle (1967)
The 1967 Doctor Dolittle is famous for being bad, which does not automatically mean that it’s bad.
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Indie Spotlight: July 2025
I recently debuted a new film review journal dedicated to indie, microbudget, and student films called The New Cinephile.