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a thriller that's relatable to the
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pandemic age a dazzling tollywood film
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that mixes fact and fiction a disturbing
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hamlet-inspired drama there is more to
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the big screen than just these here are
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the best movies of 2022 so far
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you've heard the term elevated horror
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now get acquainted with its close cousin
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quiet scifi
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after yang is a character drama centered
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around a father who suffers an unusual
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loss the loss has to do with yang yang
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is a lifelike android programmed to
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connect the father's adopted daughter to
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her chinese heritage however suddenly
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yang shuts down while the father seeks
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out a way to repair yang he and his
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family are forced to ponder yang's place
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in their lives and explore yang's own
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inner life that he chose to conceal from
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them don't be misled by that pg rating
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after yang is a tender patient and
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elegant film for grownups that ruminates
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on themes of memory intimacy and
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identity
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belle follows a talented teenage
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songwriter suzu who's been unable to
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raise her voice in song since the tragic
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death of her mother but when she logs
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into the futuristic social media
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platform you suzu transforms into belle
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a spellbinding songstress who becomes a
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global sensation overnight as suzu
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attempts to reconcile the two parts of
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herself she becomes fascinated by an
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infamous online prize fighter with a
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monstrous virtual avatar though
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originally released in japan and on the
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festival circuit in 2021 the critically
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acclaimed anime musical bell finally
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arrived in us theaters in january 2022
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it's nominally an adaptation of the
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classic fairy tale beauty and the beast
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for the social media age but belle
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brings far more to the table than just
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the familiar beats of its source
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material bell is part timeless and part
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bleeding edge contemporary as
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exemplified by its two distinct but
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equally beautiful art styles there's the
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painterly traditional animation to
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represent the real world and eye-popping
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cel-shaded cgi to represent the virtual
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reality of the internet
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mix one part college buddy movie with
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one part thriller and stir in a shot of
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social commentary to give it some bite
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and you've got emergency
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a pair of college seniors plan to be the
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first black students to complete a
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legendary bar crawl on their campus but
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their plans are interrupted when they
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find an unconscious white girl sick with
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alcohol poisoning in their living room
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certain that calling the authorities
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will only get them arrested or worse
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they embark on an increasingly
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complicated quest to drive her to the
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hospital themselves a spoonful of stoner
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comedy helps the medicine go down as
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emergency highlights the way systemic
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racism increases the danger and
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difficulty of life for black americans
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think about it statistically
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how many people actually get shot by the
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cops it's like really really unlikely
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right
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the kovid 19 era has produced a number
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of locked room feature films they're
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films produced with a minimal cast in an
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isolated location to reduce the risks
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and costs of working during a pandemic
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good luck to you leo grand stands out
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among this accidental genre it's
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essentially a two-person play set almost
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entirely in a london hotel room here
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emma thompson plays a retired ethics
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teacher who hires a young sex worker to
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help her rebound from decades of
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unfulfilling sex with her late husband
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it's an argument in support of legalized
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sex work but the heady controversial
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conversation never weighs down this
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charming dialogue driven comedy
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who would have guessed that the first
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honest-to-goodness critical darling of
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2022 would be jackass forever the
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long-awaited fourth installment of the
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film series based on the mtv prank show
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of the same name sees johnny knoxville
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stevo and the gang once again punishing
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their bodies with elaborate pranks and
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dares the twist this time they're
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middle-aged the key to this film's
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critical success is its total sincerity
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despite the increased risk to their
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health knoxville and company carry on
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performing dangerous disgusting bits why
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it's simply because they love making
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each other laugh and to them nothing is
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funnier now they get to share their
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legacy with a new generation of
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comedians who grew up watching them hit
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each other's genitals and saying someday
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that's going to be me
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kimmy is a thriller that's extremely
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relatable to the moments of 2022 zoe
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kravitz plays angela a programmer whose
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job it is to manually review garbled or
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misunderstood communications between an
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alexa style electronic assistant called
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kimmy and its users when she stumbles
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across an audio recording of a heinous
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crime angela must try to get the
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evidence into the right hands without
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tipping off its perpetrators but there's
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an added complication it's the middle of
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the covid19 pandemic and angela is
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severely agoraphobic kimi utilizes the
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unique stresses of the present day from
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the anxiety of being constantly
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surveilled to the social and economic to
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malt inflamed by the pandemic in doing
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so we have a short sweet hour and a half
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of intrigue and action
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debuting at sundance and hitting
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theaters and streaming later in 2022
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resurrection is a white knuckle
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psychological horror film in which star
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rebecca hall delivers one of the year's
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first great performances hall portrays
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margaret a businesswoman and single
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parent who seems in total control of her
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life until a mysterious man from her
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past resurfaces and sends her spiraling
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into all-consuming panic what is it that
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makes his mere presence so terrifying we
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are absolutely not telling you need to
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see this one for yourself rebecca hall
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and tim roth sell the film's bizarre and
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disgusting twists with such conviction
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that they can stick with you long after
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you finish watching
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in 1996 director wes craven and
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screenwriter kevin williamson ushered in
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a new era of horror movies with scream
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in which a group of teens are hunted by
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a mysterious killer who is obsessed with
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slasher movies each scream sequel has
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commented on the nature of horror
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sequels and the changing landscape of
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horror cinema this fifth entry tackles
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the contemporary trend of the recoil in
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which legacy characters pass the torch
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to a new generation but as always scream
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isn't just about dorky inside jokes for
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xenophiles it's also a thrilling horror
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whodunit in its own right with scares
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and chuckles in equal measure scream can
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be enjoyed as either a jumping on point
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or a satisfying conclusion to one of
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horror's most consistent franchises
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the streets of gotham city have never
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been grittier than in the batman a new
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interpretation of dc's most popular
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superhero despite being yet another
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reboot that takes the character back to
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basics as a lone crime fighter chasing
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gangsters and serial killers the batman
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still feels distinct it's different from
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both christopher nolan's nuts and bolts
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realism and tim burton's dark whimsy
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more than any previous batman film it's
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a detective story closer to a 1970s
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neo-noir than a modern action
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blockbuster within the film's ambitious
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three-hour run time you'll find
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memorable performances gorgeous
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photography and the most in-depth
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exploration of the title character ever
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to hit the big screen don't let me hurt
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you you better watch it
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based on the popular 19th century french
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stage play cyrano is a musical romance
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starring peter dinklage as a warrior
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poet who's hopelessly in love with his
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oldest friend roxanne this latest twist
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on the classic romance features original
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songs written by members of the indie
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rock band the national it also showcases
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dinklage's untapped potential as a
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leading man both during the film's
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comedic first hour and it's heavier
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dramatic second half
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evelyn wang is an exhausted and
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unfulfilled laundromat owner who's just
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trying to get her taxes done when she's
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suddenly recruited to fight in an
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interdimensional war to save the
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multiverse evelyn will have to learn how
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to verse jump she'll have to tap into
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the feelings memories and skills of her
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alternate selves all of whom have done
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more with their lives than she has
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everything everywhere all at once is
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uproariously funny visually dazzling and
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deeply moving michelle yeo delivers an
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oscar-worthy lead performance and that's
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without even factoring in her multiple
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off-the-wall fight scenes that demand
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both great technical skill and comedic
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timing
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8th grader may lee awakens one morning
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to discover she has transformed into a
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giant red panda just as every woman in
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her family has for generations may's
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panda form emerges whenever she
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experiences strong emotions and her
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mother ming expects her to reign it in
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like she did but what if mae likes being
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an excitable furry monster
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turning red is a joyful celebration of
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friendship family and how the awkward
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process of growing up complicates both
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it must be so difficult keeping that
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unruly beast at bay
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director michael bay's maximalist style
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of action filmmaking has rarely produced
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a better product than ambulance
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ambulance is a pulse-pounding heist
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thriller that's basically a
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feature-length car chase it's the story
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of two brothers one a career criminal
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the other a desperate marine veteran
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attempting to escape a deadly bank
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robbery in a stolen ambulance with a
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brave emt and a badly wounded police
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officer as their hostages bae infuses
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ambulance with a killer combination of
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old and new school production techniques
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there's practical automotive action and
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also a metric ton of pyrotechnics
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perching cameras on the noses of
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high-speed stunt drones that give the
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audience a first person view of their
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daring dives and barrel rolls the
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screenplay is not exactly shakespearean
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but when it comes to dizzying
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blockbuster fun look no further
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as sidhunt adlaka of indie wire puts it
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rr is a dazzling work of historical
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fiction emphasis on the fiction rrr is
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essentially a superhero epic based on
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two real indian revolutionaries of the
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1920s who likely never actually met it's
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a violent thrilling heartfelt and
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gleefully over-the-top tollywood action
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musical blockbuster its song and dance
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number not two not two has gone mega
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viral online and it teases only a small
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fraction of the bombastic excitement of
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its battle scenes rrr is no hollow
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spectacle beyond its anti-imperialist
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political message
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rrr also boasts one of the most
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unreservedly sincere bromances in modern
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cinema it's a three-hour film that
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energizes rather than exhausts its
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audience by the time the credits roll
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you'll feel like you could punch a hole
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through the moon
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the bad guys follows the exploits of a
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gang of famous thieves who attempt to
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rehabilitate their public image
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pretending to reform while actually
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planning their biggest crime yet based
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on a series of graphic novels for young
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readers by aaron blaby the art style of
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the bad guys embraces its 2d ink and
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paper origins this results in a
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distinctive and fun visual aesthetic
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that looks like nothing dreamworks has
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produced before looper's alistair rider
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calls it the studio's best effort since
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the first how to train your dragon
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sequel it balances out its lowbrow kid's
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humor with a surprisingly good send up
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of hip heist films like ocean's 11 and
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reservoir dogs
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in this very modern thriller a young
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woman exhausted by the online dating
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scene takes a chance on a charming
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stranger who she meets at the grocery
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store he seems too good to be true and
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of course he is but nothing could have
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prepared her for the gruesome reality of
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his intentions fresh is a grim bloody
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tale with a sick sense of humor a
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cutting criticism of the way men
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commodify women and their bodies it's
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not a subtle film and its politics are
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sometimes transparent to the point of
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pandering but its message has value
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the film as a whole offers far more
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gasps than it does groans
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from celebrated director robert eggers
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comes this unflinchingly brutal
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historical fantasy based on the ancient
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viking epic that inspired shakespeare's
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hamlet the dethroned prince amleth will
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stop at nothing to exact vengeance
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against the uncle who slew his father
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and kidnapped his mother but will his
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quest leave him more beast than man the
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northman is as visually stunning as it
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is disturbing a meticulous and
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unsanitized portrait of the grim and
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miserable past in amla's blood-soaked
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world cruelty is the only currency and
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deaths are always paid with interest
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i am i'm not a bad wolf
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the premise of the lost city is rather
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similar to the 1984 adventure film
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romancing the stone in which a romance
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novelist finds herself on a real-life
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treasure hunt through the jungle with a
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roguish hunk at her side the lost city
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is as much a parody of this idea as it
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is homage sandra bullock plays a
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best-selling author of erotic adventure
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novels who's washed up and embarrassed
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of her success instead of a devilish
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indiana jones type she's paired up with
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the sweet but dimwitted model played by
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channing tatum from the cover of her
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books while the lost city doesn't
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approach the level of craft on display
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in romancing the stone it's the sort of
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charming low stakes adventure flick we
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wish would hit the big screen more often
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is sonic the hedgehog 2 a cinematic
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masterpiece on par with the likes of
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paddington 2
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no not quite but is it a comic action
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adventure that's an absolute blast to
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watch it is indeed the super fast blue
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hedgehog of sega fame once again fights
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the diabolical dr robotnik once again we
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see jim carrey demonstrate that he's
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just as much a cartoon as any talking
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animal that the effects department can
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render but now the cast of computer
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generated characters has expanded
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bringing the series closer to the purely
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animated kids film franchise it probably
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should have been in the first place
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