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Sacramento (2024)

You might know Michael Angarano’s face even if you don’t know his name.

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Inherit the Wind (1960)

This July, we will mark a century since the Scopes Trial of 1925, aka “The Monkey Trial.”

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Rope (1948)

Rope is a bit of an odd duck in the Alfred Hitchcock canon, both transitional and anomalous.

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Drop (2025)

I’ve been using the term “thriller” a lot recently, perhaps too casually, as if any film that includes at least one jump scare, one chase scene, and a suggestion of threat to the protagonist’s life qualifies.

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Death of a Unicorn (2025)

There’s a fine line between a film with a fluid tone whose unpredictability is charming, and a film whose tonal messiness is movie-ruining.

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Turtles All the Way Down (2024)

There is nothing more cringe than being a mid-thirties man who loves John Green.

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Black Bag (2025)

Steven Soderbergh had himself a proper double feature this spring

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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.