Katie Rife
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World movie review (2024)

“Do Not Expect…” culminates in a masterfully executed sequence that distills the film’s themes into a single, unbroken shot—ostensibly the raw footage from

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Io Capitano movie review & film summary (2024)

Cannes darling Matteo Garrone (“Gomorrah“) turns his best intentions towards following two Senegalese immigrants on the dangerous trip across Africa and into Italy.

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She Is Conann movie review & film summary (2024)

Throughout Conann’s multiple incarnations, one character stays consistent. Rainer (Elina Löwensohn)—a tribute to Fassbinder? Wouldn’t be surprising—is a perverse dog-faced oracle in a

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The Best Horror Films of 2023 | Features

“Perpetrator” “Perpetrator” is a singular work from an utterly singular filmmaker. Jennifer Reeder’s visionary films take place in a deadpan dimension populated with

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Frybread Face and Me movie review (2023)

Isolated and out of place, Benny finds companionship in the form of his cousin Dawn (Charley Hogan), whom everyone calls Frybread Face because

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Evil Dead Rise movie review & film summary (2023)

The latest in the series, “Evil Dead Rise,” comes from Irish writer/director Lee Cronin, whose 2019 feature debut “The Hole in the Ground”

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My Happy Ending movie review & film summary (2023)

Regardless of the questions raised by her presence, Julia is here now, availing of the NHS in her time of need after being

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Jethica movie review & film summary (2023)

“Jethica”’s ghosts are lonelier than its living humans overall, mostly because they’re only able to touch each other. (Their hands pass through the

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M3GAN movie review & film summary (2023)

But Gemma isn’t a motherly type. She’s too busy with work to spend much time with Cady, for one. And although she works

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Wildcat movie review & film summary (2022)

The man in question is Harry Turner, an Englishman in his early twenties who was deployed to Afghanistan when he was 18 years

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