Reviews

Oh, Hi!

The perils of not asking “so, what are we?” in a timely manner reach their (il)logical conclusion in Oh, Hi!, a dark rom-com in which we aren’t the only captive audience.

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50
Cloud

If you want to understand the digital age and its anxieties, you could do worse than watching a Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie.

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49
Sovereign

There’s no such thing as a sovereign citizen, but there are a lot of people who’d be angry if they heard you say that.

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48
Kill the Jockey

If the mobsters he owes money don’t kill Remo first, the drugs he steals from his horse ought to do the trick.

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47
Sorry, Baby

“Something really bad happened to me” is as specific as Agnes tends to be when asked about it.

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46
Materialists

You don’t think of yourself as a Dakota Johnson person until you watch her in a movie like Materialists and realize you are very much a Dakota Johnson person.

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45
The Life of Chuck

It isn’t until The Life of Chuck’s second chapter that we actually meet its title character, by which point the world (or at least a world) might have already ended.

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44
The Phoenician Scheme

It’s hard not to think of Royal Tenenbaum the first time you meet Zsa-zsa Korda.

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43
Bring Her Back

A chalk barrier encircles the secluded home, though it’s unclear whether it’s meant to keep something in or out.

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42
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning

Tom Cruise needs us to trust him one last time.

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41
Sister Midnight

“How come you get to be so still and calm?” Sister Midnight’s troubled heroine asks the moon on a particularly bad night.

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40
Friendship

Is the cure to male loneliness watching Friendship?

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39