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After showing his penchant for non-stop violent action and general mayhem in his first two R-rated films, 2015’s 96-minute Hardcore Henry and 2021’s Bob Odenkirk-starring 92-minute Nobody (getting a sequel later this year), director Ilya Naishuller proves those feature film debuts were no accident…

The killer doll who became the meme heard round the world is back, but she’s a bit different this time around – or is she? Could this AI robotic invention-turned-terrorist doll that only a child named Cady could love actually redeem herself in an…

A spirited rendition of “There’s No Business Like Show Business” during the opening credits gets the oddball dramedy Everything’s Going To Be Great off to a promising start, right in line with its optimistic title. What follows though is the story of a…

Now/then, now/then… The past and the present exist in perpetual tension in the gory second sequel to Danny Boyle's zombie horror franchise. "Time didn't heal anything," goes the tagline, and as we learned from the recent pandemic, mankind isn't always prepared for the worst. By far the most…

The latest animation from Pixar has been in the pipe for quite some time, and while that's not so strange for such a labor-intensive production, it's telling that the finished version bears little resemblance, story-wise, to the film promised by the…

F1: The Movie starts, ominously enough, with the black Warner Bros logo, which suggests it's going the be The Dark Knight Rises of sports movies. But although it never really relaxes into the fun, '60s-style Paul Newman picture it might have been, F1…

You could be forgiven for thinking Little Amélie is some sort of prequel to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's delightfully French 2001 fantasy Amélie. Instead, this animated feature from Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han is delightfully French in a different kind of way, perfect for sensitive adults and…

In Fixed, premiering at the Annecy International Festival of Animation in France, Netflix has a nice feature film companion piece for its oh-so-adult animation shows like Big Mouth. This one about a pooch named Bull fetting over the imminent loss of his doggie testicles — or so he thinks — is in the…

The sunny strip-mall mundanity of Southern California's San Gabriel Valley is the fascinating setting for Eric Lin's dark directorial debut, the unsettling and not entirely successful story of a widow struggling with her son's mental illness. Based…

Don’t be confused by the title. The new French animated film Arco that debuted at Cannes in May and is at France’s Annecy Animated Film Festival this week is not about a gas station. Instead, this debut feature film from illustrator and graphic…

Sylvain Chomet, the great French animation filmmaker, started his movie career with a short called The Old Lady and the Pigeons, which won a BAFTA and the Grand Prize at the 1997 Annecy Animation Film Festival and got an Oscar nomination. He followed…

Watching writer-director Celine Song’s follow-up to her feature debut, indie darling and 2023 Best Picture Oscar nominee Past Lives, all sorts of supposed cinematic influences ran through my mind from Billy Wilder’s The Apartment to James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News to Mike Nichols’ Working Girl and…