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The Woman King (2022)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“A welcome widening of history…”

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Drama Rated NR

“Davis delivers a tremulously terrifying Elizabeth…”

Blonde (2022)

Drama Rated NC-17

“…an overcorrection, an attempt to negate the gloss by burying it in bile.”

Mad God (2022)

Horror Rated NR

“…an exquisitely imagined excretion that is revelatory, revolting, and cruel.”

Double Indemnity (1944)

Drama Rated NR

“…it’s a thrill to watch Stanwyck go to work and assert her dominance.”

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

Drama Rated R

“I appreciated the craft, but never felt the longing.”

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)

Drama Rated R

“Brown vacuums up the movie in a way that’s both entrancing and entirely true to the complicated character he’s playing.”

Always (1989)

Drama Rated PG

“Steven Spielberg’s attempt to bring classic-cinema panache to a modern, mystical romance.”

Ball of Fire (1941)

Romantic Comedy Rated NR

“Stanwyck has Cooper on a string, and he’s a delight while dangling.”

Meet John Doe (1941)

Drama Rated NR

“Frank Capra was fond of speeches – and Meet John Doe is stuffed with them.”

Recent Reviews

9 to 5 (1980)

Comedy Rated PG

“Parton’s smile wins 1,000 hearts and deflects twice as many harassing come-ons.”

Cure (1997)

Thriller Rated NR

“Like an unsettled mind, this is littered with background disturbances…”

It Ends (2026)

Horror Rated R

“A delectably malleable metaphor movie…”


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