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The Furious Review

Hong Kong was once at the forefront of action cinema the world over. While the ’80s were a time of maximalist, muscular blockbusters flooding out of the United States, the East Asian city (then a British colony) punched well above its weight. Following the work done by Bruce Lee and the Shaw Brothers to soften […]

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Disclosure Day Review

Steven Spielberg returns to extraterrestrial sci-fi with the conspiracy thriller Disclosure Day. Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) is on the run with his girlfriend, Jane (Eve Hewson), after stealing information and an advanced device from his employer. This coincides with Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) undergoing a sudden metamorphosis where she develops telekinetic powers and becomes able […]

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Arco Review

Arco is an animated film from France that explores themes of family and the environment and serves as Ugo Bienvenu’s feature debut film. Arco Dorell (Juliano Krue Valdi) is a 10-year-old boy in the distant future where time travel is possible. He wants to travel back in time and see dinosaurs, but only children older […]

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Backrooms Review

How do you adapt a no-budget, avant-garde, YouTube-based anthology series like Backrooms into a mainstream feature film? You could point to Skinamarink as an experimental horror that received a theatrical release. But it was acquired out of a festival, and never reached one thousand screens. Conversely, A24 approached Kane Parsons about adapting his own series into […]

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Tuner Review

Tuner is a crime drama directed by documentary filmmaker Daniel Roher, serving as his narrative film debut. Niki White (Leo Woodall) is a piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis. When he takes a job to tune a piano at a wealthy client’s house, Niki meets Uri (Lior Raz), the owner of a security company who is […]