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Review of Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 13 Jul 2021

Roadrunner is never less than fascinating to watch, but it is far from perfect…

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Review of Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

By Jack Hamilton (12) for Slate (2,081) on 02 Jul 2021

One of the best things about Summer of Soul is its reminder that the joy of musical community is one of the great human experiences, a unifying…

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Review of No Sudden Move (2021)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 01 Jul 2021

The whole thing vanishes pretty quickly from memory once it’s over…

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Review of America: The Motion Picture (2021)

By Rebecca Onion (6) for Slate (2,081) on 30 Jun 2021

The movie is at its best when it can revel in inventiveness, scrappiness, and camaraderie, and you feel the “We’re coming together…

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Review of Black Widow (2021)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 29 Jun 2021

Black Widow is too long, too loud, preposterously overplotted, and slightly headache-inducing—all arguably features and not bugs when it…

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Review of Zola (2021)

By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 28 Jun 2021

Like the thread it’s based on, it’s easy to rush through, even if does visit some darker places…

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Review of Luca (2021)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 16 Jun 2021

Especially if you’re watching with children, you could spend a perfectly lovely afternoon diving into Luca’s refreshing blue-green waters…

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Review of Cruella (2021)

By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 26 May 2021

All in all, Cruella is much better than it needs to be, and is hampered primarily by the fact that it’s a Disney movie, both in the sense…

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Review of In the Heights (2021)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 21 May 2021

This movie succeeds at the hardest task a movie musical needs to pull off: the musical numbers, with few exceptions, soar in the way an in-story…

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Review of The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 29 Apr 2021

And after Into the Spider-Verse and a handful of Lego Movies, it’s further proof that producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are an animation…

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Review of Mortal Kombat (2021)

By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 22 Apr 2021

Though the ending makes it clear that this movie’s purpose is largely to set up future Mortal Kombat movies, it still stands well enough…

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Review of TINA (2021)

By Jack Hamilton (12) for Slate (2,081) on 13 Apr 2021

The film has an uncommon assuredness and eloquence, a keen sense of what makes its subject fascinating, and a grasp of shape and tone that,…

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Review of Thunder Force (2021)

By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 13 Apr 2021

Watching Thunder Force, it’s baffling to remember that this is Falcone’s fifth film as a director…

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Review of Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 15 Mar 2021

Snyder’s Justice League is more, more, more in a way that most films wouldn’t dare, and, after a year of no theaters at all, a movie that…

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Review of Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell (2021)

By Jack Hamilton (12) for Slate (2,081) on 01 Mar 2021

If you’re a Biggie die-hard (I’m one), nothing in I Got a Story to Tell will trouble your conviction that everything you already thought…

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Review of The Father (2020)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 25 Feb 2021

The chance to see the 83-year-old Hopkins in a role that forces him to confront the tragic fact of human mortality, and his own eventual demise,…

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Review of To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)

By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 12 Feb 2021

Always and Forever boasts all of the Instagram-filter-style color grading and absurdly beautiful sets that fans have come to expect, as well…

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Review of Space Sweepers (2021)

By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 10 Feb 2021

It’s not a perfect movie, nor a particularly innovative one, but the science-fiction adventure—touted as the first Korean space blockbuster—is…

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Review of Earwig and the Witch (2021)

By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 01 Feb 2021

Gorō is a talented director…

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Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 01 Feb 2021

Though it’s early in the year, it doesn’t feel like a stretch to name it one of 2021’s best films…

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