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SICARIO, meaning hitman in Spanish, was lauded critically and a modest box office hit in 2015, raking in around $85 million worldwide. That was enough to warrant a sequel, and it’s entitled [...]

In a summer of ginormous tentpoles and multiple franchise entries, it’s nice to see a modestly budgeted, original film like BOUNDARIES appear in Cineplexes. More and more, this kind of film is [...]

It’s been an awful week in the news, depressing and demoralizing, and all the more reason to seek out some relief at the movie theater or your home theater. Four comedies I’ve come across [...]

I’m late to the dance reviewing the new documentary RBG, a laudatory examination of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her career, but it seems especially timely to write about it this [...]

Of all the Pixar or Disney animated films released in the last 20 years, THE INCREDIBLES was easily the one that lent itself best to a franchise. After all, comic book heroes tend to have [...]

Who knew that Fred Rogers was so political, so radical, and so subversive? Without question, the remarkable documentary WOULDN’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? presents the legendary host of MISTER [...]

The new thriller HOTEL ARTEMIS is a fun, frothy, and assuredly made B-movie with an A-list cast. It’s not a lot more than that, but as diversionary entertainment, Hollywood could do a lot worse. [...]

Your enjoyment of HEREDITARY may depend on how many horror movies you’ve seen. If you haven’t seen a lot, most of it will shock the ever-loving bejesus out of you. If you have seen quite a few, [...]