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One of the most glaring errors of The Social Reckoning is the title itself. What reckoning? Mark Zuckerberg has managed to dodge any true repercussions for turning Facebook into a platform that encourages engagement with the far right and other harmful groups.…
The star-studded thriller about two authors caught in a precarious entanglement is funny in all the wrong ways. And you know what? That might not be a bad thing.…
The Adams Family’s dark comedy horror take on contemporary America: The Glorious Dead is chilling, gruesome, and all too real. Toby Poser and John Adams talk about their personal film.…
The Great Arch is both surprisingly relatable and a fascinating character study of the men and women who built the past with an eye to the future.…
There’s something about Ürei that gets under your skin without constantly reminding you that you’re watching a horror movie. Its horror comes quietly, slowly building the feeling that something is dee…
The Squirrel is one of those movies that completely won me over in ways I wasn’t expecting. Going in, all I really knew was that there was a squirrel, it wasn’t a horror movie, and I was probably goin…
There’s something about a good Halloween movie that doesn’t necessarily need to reinvent the genre. Sometimes all I want is witches, creepy houses, kids running for their lives, a little blood, and en…
With striking imagery, a functional-enough story, and an award worthy performance from Uber the dog, it might just be David Ayer’s most inoffensive and emotionally arresting film.…
Koberidze creates a conversation with all of the shifting moments of reality that exist for the individual and then become irrevocably “something else” when they form symbolic vestiges.…
We are the Shaggs is irresistible. Even if you find the music unlistenable (and that’s a common reaction), it’s hard to deny the innocence and openness that the Wiggin sisters put both into their songs and into their wonderful reminiscing.…
Practical Magic 2 is the kind of movie that one watches silently begging to do something. Be braver and bolder, be better, be mildly enchanting. Be more than nostalgia with diminishing returns.…
Almost enough to revisit Exorcist II: The Heretic with new eyes, although even the stars of the film don’t recommend that.…