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Tag: Drama

Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)

Drama Rated NR

“. . . announced a huge talent in service of a particular vision.”

Starlet (2012)

Drama Rated NR

“Sean Baker’s movies see people for their humanity first and their circumstances second…”

Prince of Broadway (2008)

Drama Rated NR

“… bestows a certain innocence on a seedy milieu.”

Take Out (2004)

Drama Rated NR

“… builds to one of those climactic grace notes that would define later Baker movies.”

Presence (2025)

Drama Rated R

“Soderbergh gets significant mileage out of the visual conceit alone.”

I’m Still Here (2024)

Drama Rated PG-13

“… no stoic, generic portrait of resilience, but one that’s always counting the cost.”

Nickel Boys (2024)

Drama Rated PG-13

” … overflows with formal ingenuity and daring.”

A Complete Unknown (2024)

Drama Rated R

“Chalamet does enough to suggest he could anchor a really good Dylan biopic.”

Babygirl (2024)

Drama Rated R

“Unlike its protagonist, Babygirl is too easily satisfied.”

Top Ten Films of 2024 (2024)

Drama Rated NR

10 films, 10 sentences.

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Toy Story 5 (2026)

Family Rated PG

“If Toy Story 5 doesn’t quite rise to the challenge of its conceit, it still offers plenty of familiar fun.”

Rose of Nevada (2026)

Horror Rated NR

“…a work of oblique horror, a ghost story that’s something of an apparition itself.”

Z (1969)

Drama Rated NR

“. . . a bitter, brilliant pill to swallow.”


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