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Review of Firestarter (2022)

By Richard Newby (7) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 May 2022

The best thing that can be said about this new iteration of Firestarter is that it at least gave us a new score by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter,…

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Review of Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 May 2022

Joe Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) matches his well-established architectural precision with suitably nostalgic but never pandering emotionality,…

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Review of On the Count of Three (2022)

By Martin Tsai (390) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 May 2022

On The Count Of Three is not didactic, and thank goodness the filmmakers at least have the good sense to recognize that preachiness helps no…

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Review of Montana Story (2022)

By Mark Keizer (225) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 May 2022

This is a deeply felt work anchored by two earthy performances that stay small-scaled no matter how melodramatic the slowly revealed secrets become…

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Review of Homebound (2022)

By Leigh Monson (105) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 May 2022

A film that leans on withheld information to drive a mystery but lacks anything for viewers to latch onto emotionally…

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Review of Homebound (2022)

By Leigh Monson (105) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 May 2022

A film that leans on withheld information to drive a mystery but lacks anything for viewers to latch onto emotionally…

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Review of Operation Mincemeat (2022)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 May 2022

It’s also shot through with a humanizing sense of uncertainty, moral complication, and even wistfulness about the manner in which this work…

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Review of The Ravine (2022)

By Leigh Monson (105) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 May 2022

The Ravine spends more than an hour telegraphing that this is a story about the perplexing feelings that arise from a close friend’s dark…

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Review of Vortex (2022)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 May 2022

Vortex looks unsparingly at characters at the end of life, and finds their experiences as scary as any traditional horror tale…

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Review of The Twin (2022)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 May 2022

Generally speaking, the best kinds of story surprises illuminate the material; the worst simply laugh at you for falling for red herrings…

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Review of Vortex (2021)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 May 2022

Vortex looks unsparingly at characters at the end of life, and finds their experiences as scary as any traditional horror tale…

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Review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 May 2022

The film feels like a collection of ideas that never add up…

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Review of The Aviary (2022)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Apr 2022

Writer-directors Chris Cullari and Jennifer Raite give us two unreliable narrators to follow on a similar, intertwined path to personal, earth-shattering…

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Review of Hatching (2022)

By Richard Newby (7) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Apr 2022

Hatching is an efficiently told fable, the moral of which is multilayered, making the ending a puzzling emotional experience that both begs…

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Review of Memory (2022)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Apr 2022

It’d be nice to think that the forgettable nature of Memory was a deliberate irony…

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Review of Memory (2022)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Apr 2022

It’d be nice to think that the forgettable nature of Memory was a deliberate irony…

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Review of Memory (2022)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Apr 2022

It’d be nice to think that the forgettable nature of Memory was a deliberate irony…

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Review of The Bad Guys (2022)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Apr 2022

Like the Despicable Me series, The Bad Guys may find ever-diminishing returns once the villain protagonists no longer qualify as despicable…

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Review of 9 Bullets (2022)

By Courtney Howard (393) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Apr 2022

It’s a dud, yet one made semi-palatable thanks to a decent performance from leading lady Lena Headey, and of all things, a soulful ballad…

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Review of The Duke (2021)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Apr 2022

If the film isn’t quite as complicated as one might sometimes wish it to be, that isn’t to say that this unassuming version of its decidedly…

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