I felt pure, unmitigated joy from start to finish watching Missing Link, the latest stop-motion animation success from the resilient Laika Studios.
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Well-acted and earnest in its attempts, Mary Magdalene fails to create much faith and/or conviction with its overall approach.
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Though the main character is an irresistible CGI/motion capture creation, Tim Burton’s Dumbo is a bleak, somewhat cynical take on the Disney animated classic.
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The visceral and unrelenting Hotel Mumbai walks us through the events of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in haunting detail…
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Jordan Peele’s second feature, Us, is a searing, diabolical, cerebral horror film that features twists, turns, and an astonishing performance from Lupita Nyong’o.
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Two cousins come together to try and outwit a savvy businesswoman, in their hopes to build a cross-country fiber optic line in dense drama The Hummingbird Project.
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A metaphysical police procedural? Out Of Blue gives us a murder mystery of galactic proportions in Carol Morley’s intriguing and head-scratching whodunit.
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Controversial, polarizing artist, Robert Mapplethorpe, has his story reduced to an unimaginative paint-by-numbers biopic in the gravely disappointing Mapplethorpe.
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Haley Lu Richardson is a star on-the-rise and despite her heavy lifting, Five Feet Apart never materializes into manipulative, predictable disappointment.
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Though well-intentioned, family animated comedy/drama Wonder Park struggles to find a tone consistent with its message.
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Gabrielle Brady’s documentary takes us to Christmas Island - a home to millions of migrating red crabs and an immigrant detention center that has caused significant grief and trauma all across the tiny Australian territory.
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Captain Marvel survives a lackluster first hour and becomes a fun, engaging, and important entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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An absolutely remarkable historical record, and brilliantly constructed documentary, showing us new footage of the first time American astronauts walked on the moon.
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Defying categorization, Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book is only for Godard’s most loyal and patience followers.
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Belgium’s stop-motion animation drama This Magnificent Cake! tells five short stories with Belgium’s occupation of the Congo in the 19th century as a backdrop. And it is unlike any movie I have ever seen.
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Domestic thriller Greta is campy, a bit delirious, but also far too silly and empty-headed to mean anything.
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Though it completely rewrites history, Fighting With My Family is an endearing, charming underdog tale regarding WWE Superstar Paige’s meteoric rise to the top of the WWE Women’s Division.
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With the arrival of The Hidden World, it is official - How To Train Your Dragon is one of the best trilogies, animated or otherwise, of all time.
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Rebel Wilson is pretty wonderful, leading her first film, Isn’t It Romantic?, a soft skewering of the romantic comedies we have watched a thousand times over.
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The plastic heroes from 2014’s The LEGO Movie return for a comedy adventure full of catchy music, rapid-fire dialogue and jokes, and a sense that maybe this franchise is starting to show signs of diminishing returns.
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