film reviews

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  'Captain America: Brave New World' Has Five Writers and It Shows

  Directed by Julius Onah

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2025

  It seems unfair that one movie has to carry the weight of a whole studio on its back, but things haven't been going so great for Marvel...

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  'The Gorge' Is Promising but Empty

  Directed by Scott Derrickson

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2025

  Unique ideas are hard to come by, and while 'The Gorge' begins strong with a great concept, it falls apart in the back half. In the earliest...

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  ‘Paddington in Peru’ Fails to Live Up to Its Predecessors

  Directed by Dougal Wilson

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2025

  Threequels, ugh. Sometimes, they become timeless classics — much beloved and endlessly rewatchable — others serve as the black sheep of the...

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  ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Captures the Success, Not the Headlines

  Directed by Bernard MacMahon

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2025

  To be or not to be: a question that engaged some stodgier, sexless Brits maybe, but not rock's mightiest quartet, Led Zeppelin. From the on...

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  Questlove Fearlessly Humanizes a Musical Enigma in 'SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)'

  Directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

  PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2025

  After the massive success of his directorial debut, 'Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),' multi-award...

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  Season 3 of 'The White Lotus' Gets Darker and Freakier in Thailand

  Created by Mike White

  PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2025

  There were two main talking points when Season 2 of 'The White Lotus' aired almost three years ago: who's going die, and how good is that...

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  'DISCO'S REVENGE' Gets the Last Laugh

  Directed by Omar Majeed and Peter Mishara

  PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2025

  Disco was a dirty word, at least when I was a teenager in the 1990s. It was an exiled musical style from a bygone era, only spoken about to...

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  'Heart Eyes' Finds True Love Amidst the Bloody Hellscape of Modern Dating

  Directed by Josh Ruben

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2025

  Dating in the current technological moment is its own gruelling circle of hell. It's not just courtesy of the motley web of apps...