New Releases

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  'Cold Pursuit' Offers Revenge Served Cold

  Directed By Hans Petter Moland

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2019

  Amidst scandal around racist revenge fantasy comments, Liam Neeson's latest revenge action/thriller is bound for a fittingly icy reception....

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  'Lords of Chaos' Tells the Brutal Origin Story of Black Metal

  Directed by Jonas Åkerlund

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2019

  From its inception, Lords of Chaos was the center of endless controversy and uproar. The story itself is as close to real mythology and leg...

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  'The Prodigy' Is Just Another Horror Movie About a Sociopathic Child

  Directed by Nicholas McCarthy

  PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2019

  Here's the elevator pitch for The Prodigy: creepy kid does some spooky shit.   As you could have guessed from the poster, this is yet anoth...

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  'The Amityville Murders' Has No New Tale to Tell

  Directed by Daniel Farrands

  PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2019

  At this point, it may be safe to say that there are enough Amityville movies.   While it's possible to revive a long-dead franchise with a...

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  'Serenity' Offers Noir on the Water but Lacks Clarity

  Directed by Steven Knight

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2019

  Screenwriter-by-trade Steven Knight's last film as director, Locke, is almost all talk, literally. Tom Hardy spends the entire film in his...

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  'Glass' Struggles to Connect to 'Unbreakable' and 'Split'

  Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2019

  Glass is one fractured movie.   Bad puns aside, Glass is often frustrating, in that all the pieces of a good film are here: decent pacing (...

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  'The Upside' Is a Mess of Carpe Diem Clichés

  Directed by Neil Burger

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2019

  The Upside is based on a true story. That's ironic, since it doesn't resemble real life so much as a cobbled together mess of carpe diem cl...

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  'Bird Box' Offers Post-Apocalyptic Tension That Feels Familiar

  Directed by Susanne Bier

  PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2018

  This year's best horror films challenged tropes (Annihilation), tactics (Hereditary) and the conventions of cinema itself (A Quiet Place)....