New Releases

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  'Science Fair' Sees the Future Through Young Minds

  Directed by Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2018

  Science Fair, the new documentary produced by National Geographic, doesn't start with a hypothesis, but with an assertion. The filmmakers s...

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  'Bohemian Rhapsody' Will Have Fans Saying "Yas Queen"

  Directed by Bryan Singer

  PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2018

  Consider this: weeks before Freddie Mercury's death in 1991, Mike Myers sent over an advance screener of Wayne's World to obtain the bedrid...

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  'Johnny English Strikes Again' with Bland but Enjoyable Comedy

  Directed by David Kerr

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2018

  If Rowan Atkinson were to resurrect one of his past projects, the logical choice would have been Mr. Bean, or possibly Blackadder. Hell, ev...

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  'Suspiria' Is a Silly Movie but a Good Thom Yorke Music Video

  Directed by Luca Guadagnino

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2018

  Suspiria has all the signifiers of a "Serious Art Film": a two-and-a-half-hour runtime, seven acts broken up by title cards, often-subtitle...

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  'Transformer' Chronicles Power Lifter's Complex Gender Transition

  Directed by Michael Del Monte

  PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2018

  From its opening shot, Transformer says it's a documentary about transitioning. Janae Marie Kroczaleski is undressing, getting ready for su...

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  'Halloween' Mines Past Family Trauma for an Updated Slasher Homage

  Directed by David Gordon Green

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2018

  Michael Myers is one of the all-time greats when it comes to slasher villains, precisely because he is the simplest — at least, if you disr...

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  Ryan Gosling's 'First Man' Sticks the (Moon) Landing

  Directed by Damien Chazelle

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2018

  Putting a person on the moon is arguably humanity's greatest achievement — the single moment that embodies just how far we've come as a spe...

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  'The Hate U Give' Is on the Nose Because It Must Be

  Directed by George Tillman Jr.

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2018

  The Hate U Give, a film adaptation of the YA bestseller by Angie Thomas, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white cop, is...