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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

There was always a pretty high floor for the 1974 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.

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Sinners (2025)

The devil comes in many forms, but sometimes he just carries a guitar.

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Ghost Dad (1990)

It’s not exactly news that watching a Bill Cosby movie in 2025 is an uneasy proposition.

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Borderline (2025)

Borderline is a rarity among 2020s comedy-thrillers

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The Ten Commandments (1923)

When most people hear “Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments,” their mind goes to the 1956 epic — the one with a four-hour runtime and Charlton Heston’s gradually-expanding beard.

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Opus (2025)

Like most movie lovers, I typically seek out films I think I will like, or at least find fascinating.

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Blink Twice (2024)

I guess at some point “Get Out-like” became a subgenre, with the target of the satiric horror more often class disparity than the racism of the original.

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Paper Moon (1973)

There’s a scene set at a carnival about halfway through Paper Moon when nine-year-old Addie Loggins (Tatum O’Neal) gets a portrait taken by herself at a carnival

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One of Them Days (2025)

One of Them Days is a treat — an honest-to-God comedy with setups, punchlines, and performances calibrated to land them.

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Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Kenneth Branagh loves English literature more than I do and more than you do.