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The Odyssey (2026)

When I saw The Dark Knight in 2008, I stepped into the Airbus IMAX theater in Chantilly, Virginia

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Influencers (2025)

Influencer, Kurtis David Harder’s 2022 sleeper, pulled off something trickier than it looks

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Influencer (2022)

It is uncommon to find a thriller from the 2020s that feels connected to the fundamentals of the genre as established by greats like Alfred Hitchcock

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The Whisper Man (2026)

These days I am a practicing Unitarian Universalist, but I grew up Catholic, and on one retreat we learned a breathing mantra

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Death Becomes Her (1992)

Robert Zemeckis has built a career as a premier techno-artist, almost always finding some groundbreaking visual effect to center his films around.

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Minions & Monsters (2026)

The Minions sub-franchise of Illumination’s flagship Despicable Me series is basically the Oops! All Berries of cinema.

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M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

M3GAN was one of the surprises of 2023, at least in terms of buzz and box office intake

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Weekend at Bernie’s II (1993)

How do you make a sequel to a black comedy about a dead body posing as a living man?

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Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Few movies in the history of the medium have been more relegated to the “film school” shelf than Battleship Potemkin:

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Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)

You know the premise of Weekend at Bernie’s.