The Drama

The Drama

It’s a love story for the ages. Two attractive people have a meet-cute at a coffee shop and begin a relationship so loving and comforting that it’s like they were born for each other. They share a romantic moment while sneaking into a museum, move into a nice apartment, and land well-paying jobs that allow them to move into the final stage of their fairy-tale romance: tying the knot. Of course, you have to look past the holes in this charming relationship to regard Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya) as a perfect couple. Their initial meeting would be cute if you ignore that Charlie creepily looks over Emma’s shoulder to see what book she’s reading, quickly looks it up as a failed excuse to talk to her, then gives her a self-pitying apology for bothering her. (The punchline being

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The Love That Remains

The Love That Remains

Hlynur Pálmason, whose Godland (2022) chronicled a fraught Herzogian trek across Iceland’s darkly forbidding landscape, turns from the epic to the intimate with The Love

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Roughly 28 weeks after one of the most bizarre cliffhangers in summer-blockbuster history, a follow-up has finally arrived, albeit through a different lens. Vacating the

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One Battle After Anotehr

One Battle After Another

[Note: This review contains spoilers for Vineland and One Battle After Another.] At the conclusion of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, the characters are celebrating the

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The Running Man

The Running Man

Stephen King’s 1982 novel The Running Man is one of the author’s more uncharacteristic works. This dystopian science-fiction tale – set, as it happens, in

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Bugonia

Bugonia

Teddy (Jesse Plemons) has a plan. He has done his research. He has procured all the necessary supplies, including padlocks, steel cables, and bulk quantities

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

From a distance, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey resembles any other Hollywood romance, one featuring bankable, charming stars and a light enough tone to appeal

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