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Magic Mike (2012)

Drama Rated R

“…most interesting for Tatum’s performance and the way director Steven Soderbergh emphasizes an overall air of economic desperation.

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Action/Adventure Rated R

"Even its detractors – and this is a movie that’s easy to take potshots at – will have to admit that Cloud Atlas is more fluid than it has any right to be."

Take This Waltz (2012)

Drama Rated R

"The movie has many true sentiments, but few true characters on which to hang them."

Alien (1979)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“…a distinctly deliberate exercise in terror.”

Prometheus (2012)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“Our genre pictures are being burdened by a love of lore.

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

Comedy Rated R

"…aspires mostly to nonchalance."

Humpday (2009)

Drama Rated R

High concept meets indie aesthetic, to fascinating results. Writer-director Lynn Shelton takes a boozy, late night query – What if a pair of male, heterosexual best friends agreed to have sex on film for an amateur porn contest? – and turns it into a thoughtful, revealing and challenging consideration of what it means to be

Your Sister’s Sister (2012)

Drama Rated R

"…about our desire for family, however unconventional."

Patang (2012)

Drama Rated NR

"The characters remain faces on a brochure."

Children of Heaven (1997)

Drama Rated PG

Children of Heaven, from Iranian director Majid Majidi, immerses us so thoroughly in the world of its child protagonists that their central dilemma – trading a single pair of shoes back and forth so that their parents don’t realize they’ve lost their only other pair – has a powerhouse dramatic intensity. When they meet mid-day

Recent Reviews

The Drama (2026)

Drama Rated R

“… inflicts a contrived construct on Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, one from which they never escape.”

Tender Mercies (1983)

Drama Rated PG

“… an unhurried meditation on prodigal singers and profligate love.”

The Great Santini (1979)

Drama Rated PG

“… has a literally commanding Duvall at the center of it.”


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