Tag: july 2022
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‘The Right Stuff’ Feels Earthbound Even When It’s Shooting Toward the Moon
‘The Right Stuff’ frequently feels like a marvel.
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‘Nope’ is a Thrilling, Thought-Provoking Horror Hybrid
Plus: Acclaimed new documentary ‘Fire of Love’ is a spectacular highlights reel.
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You Forget ‘UFOria’ as Soon As It’s Over
I’m sure, though, I’ll remember the joy I felt first seeing character-actor greats Harry Dean Stanton and Fred Ward not just in the same movie but seated at its front, for once not confined to the thankless background of a better movie.
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‘A Stolen Life’ is a Fun Good-Twin-Bad-Twin Melodrama
Evil twins: you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them.
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‘Dual’: A Flat, Opaque Dark Comedy with an Intriguing Premise
Writer-director Stearns doesn’t quite pull everything off.
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Secrets, Lies, and Love Triangles in ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ and ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’
On the new Claire Denis movie and a book adaptation.
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‘Peppermint Frappé’ Makes You Long for ‘Vertigo’
‘Peppermint Frappé’ is unsurprisingly not as good as its spiritual predecessor — any movie taking after Hitchcock’s masterpiece is foredoomed — but it isn’t by any means a shoddy-quality knockoff.
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‘Tremors II: Aftershocks’ is a Better-Than-Average Direct-to-Video Sequel — Which Isn’t Saying Much
Beyond not being irredeemably terrible, ‘Tremors 2’ doesn’t have too much to distinguish itself from its lots-of-fun predecessor.
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Mapache’s Sunlit Sounds
The California folk-rock duo comes to Seattle next week.
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Fumbles the Hammer
And ‘The Princess,’ now on Hulu, offers dynamic action sequences and little else.
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Kathleen Turner is a Knockout in ‘Crimes of Passion’
And so is Anthony Perkins.
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‘Official Competition’ is a Mischievous Backstage Comedy
Plus: ‘Montana Story,’ now available to stream, is a sensitive, engaging family drama.
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