Month: June 2024
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Comedy Movie
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Vampires are all the rage in film and television these days. Some of them run hotels (“Interview with the Vampire”),…
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Comedy Movie
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg Stalter), a floundering LA-based indie musician who is…
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Animated Movie
Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,” a new animated superhero fantasy about absent parents,…
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Comedy Movie
Reverse the Curse
When it premiered at Tribeca last year, David Duchovny’s “Reverse the Curse” was titled “Bucky F*cking Dent,” which is a…
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Comedy Movie
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of “Romeo and Juliet,” is a drama about traumatized people healing themselves…
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Comedy Movie
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on the white board while attending a “semi-silent retreat”.…
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Animated Movie
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s a sequel. But after seeing “Turning Red” pushed…
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Comedy Movie
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same writer/director, Savi Gabizon. It could just as well…
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Comedy Movie
I Used to Be Funny
On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp, or think—sometimes simultaneously. But what happens when a…
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Comedy Movie
Accidental Texan
A bad first impression won’t necessarily ruin a movie. If anything, it’s more important that a film stick the landing,…
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