A Different Man

A Different Man

Writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man is a smart, morbid, and unexpectedly funny film, but it plays a bit of a long game, only gradually

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The Substance

The Substance

A feature-length Tales from the Crypt episode that mashes up The Picture of Dorian Gray, All About Eve (1950), and Death Becomes Her (1992) into

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Eureka

Eureka

Lisandro Alonso is often cited as one of the reigning masters of slow cinema, but this perhaps undersells just how defiantly unconcerned the Argentine filmmaker

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Close Your Eyes

Close Your Eyes

They say time heals all wounds, but such an expression long pre-dates the advent of the motion picture: a living thing that has the power

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Red Rooms

Red Rooms

A few weeks ago, I watched a documentary series about Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the so-called Ken & Barbie Killers. In the early 1990s,

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Cuckoo

Cuckoo

During the first two-thirds of Tilman Singer’s sophomore film, Cuckoo, the vibes are impeccably odd. Even before openly bizarre things begin to happen, everything in

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Only the River Flows

Only the River Flows

Somebody killed Granny Four. It’s the sort of news nobody wants to hear, and yet it surprises no one. That’s because there’s an assumption, a

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Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus

The Alien franchise has never really escaped the slime-slicked allure of its core premise: Trap a group of unwitting people in an isolated location and

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