Month: May 2024
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Comedy Movie
Stress Positions
Say what you will about “Stress Positions,” the new indie comedy that marks the feature debut of writer-director-costar Theda Hammel:…
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Animated Movie
The Boy and the Heron
One of the most important artists of all time has a new film this week, an unexpected fantasy from a…
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Comedy Movie
The Fall Guy
With the notable exception of “Barbie,” the modern blockbuster can be pretty serious stuff. Whether it’s the dense lore and world-building…
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Animated Movie
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” is fine. That’s probably more…
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Comedy Movie
The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed
I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” on headphones, in my room, trying to stay…
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Animated Movie
Migration
As some of you may have noticed, there has been a distinctly avian-related theme to the animated feature films that…
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Comedy Movie
Terrestrial Verses
“Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge from Iran recently, has qualities that link it…
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Animated Movie
The Peasants
Here’s the first thing you need to know about the animated romance “The Peasants”: It is abundantly and often times,…
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Animated Movie
The Tiger’s Apprentice
At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to be a grand advance for the cause of…
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Comedy Movie
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story
A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe because it’s tough to tell what the filmmakers…
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