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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Death of a Unicorn (2025)
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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.
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Borderline (2025)
Borderline is a rarity among 2020s comedy-thrillers
Probably my single biggest objection to the finale of Gangs of London Season 2 was the way Lale’s plotline was handled.
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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.