New Releases

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  'The Farewell' Brings Humour and Heartbreak to Issues of Cultural Disconnection

  Directed by Lulu Wang

  PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2019

  For years, director Lulu Wang's family has been withholding her grandmother's terminal cancer diagnosis from herself, a story that earned W...

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  'The Lion King' Is 'Planet Earth' Minus David Attenborough

  Directed by Jon Favreau

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2019

  The Lion King is about an impressionable youth who runs away from home, joins a squat, experiments with nihilism, becomes radicalized and t...

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  'Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am' Finally Gives a More Complete Picture of an Amazing Life

  Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

  PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2019

  After reading Toni Morrison's groundbreaking 1987 novel Beloved, Oprah Winfrey was so fixated on locating the author to discuss it, she con...

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  'Midsommar' Lays Humanity Bare at a Swedish Hippie Festival

  Directed by Ari Aster

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2019

  There's a scene early on in Midsommar where our central cast of blissfully unaware tourists are driving to a once-in-a-century Scandanavian...

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  'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Eventually Finds Its Tingle

  Directed by Jon Watts

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2019

  Homecoming, Tom Holland's first spin around the block as Spider-Man, was a surprising delight. After all, in a cluttered superhero film lan...

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  'Annabelle Comes Home' Has Fun with Its Closet of Horrors

  Directed by Gary Dauberman

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2019

  Annabelle Comes Home isn't much more than spooky funhouse nonsense, but that's all it needs to be — and for the third film in a spinoff fra...

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  'Yesterday' Is a Charming Beatles Rom-Com That Even Ed Sheeran Can't Ruin

  Directed by Danny Boyle

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2019

  Imagine if the Beatles never existed, and you could pass off all of their songs as your own. Anyone who has attempted to write pop songs ha...

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  'Toy Story 4' Is a Sporking Good and Worthy Finale

  Directed by Josh Cooley

  PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2019

  Toy Story 3 beautifully wrapped up the saga of Andy and his collection of sentient toys, so it's easy to be a little sceptical about the pr...