The Holdovers: Giamatti's Grinch of a Teacher Gets the Best Lines in a Tale of Three Sad Souls
ReviewJim SlotekChristmas movies, Movies about teachers, Movies set in the '70s, The Holdovers, Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti, Sideways, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Movies about damaged people
Freelance: John Cena/Alison Brie 'Action Rom-Com' Lacks Rom, Com and Pulse
By Chris Knight
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Five Minutes Is More Than Enough for this Fans-Only Horror Film
ReviewJim SlotekMovies based on video games, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Amusement park animatronics, Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Replacement directors, Emma Tammi, Chris Columbus
The Delinquents: Ramblingly Funny Argentinian Heist Movie is a Masterpiece of Slow Cinema
By Chris Knight
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The Killer: Slaying in True David Fincher Fashion
ReviewJim SlotekThe Killer, David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Luc Jacamon, Alexis Nolent, Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender, Action, Assassin stories, Hired guns, Drama
Toronto After Dark Film Fest Post-Mortem: Still Bonkers at Age 17
ViewsJim SlotekToronto After Dark Film Festival, Indie horror film festivals, It’s a Wonderful Knife, Founder/artistic director Adam Lope, Late Night with the Devil, The Last Exit, Joely Richardson, Canadian short horror films, Scott Riopelle’s Soul Proprietor, Daniel’s Gotta Die, Sweden UFO
Dicks The Musical: Half-cocked Spoof Fails to Rise to the Occasion
ReviewJim SlotekDicks: The Musical, Larry Charles, TIFF 23, Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, Meagan Mullally, Bowen Yang, Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Comedy, Sexual identity, The Parent Trap
Pain Hustlers: Finding the Funny in Fentanyl isn't What the Doctor Ordered
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekBased-in-fact comedy filmmaking, Adam-McKay, Pain Hustlers, David Yates, Wells Tower, Opioid crisis, Andy Garcia, Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Unprincipled pharma marketing, Catherine O'Hara
Original-Cin Q&A: The Creators of Dicks: The Musical, on 'Going There' with Nathan Lane and Friends
By Bonnie Laufer
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Anatomy of a Fall: Did He Jump or Did She Push?
ReviewJim SlotekAnatomy of a Fall, Palme d’Or at Cannes, TIFF 23, Justine Triet, Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado Graner, Samuel Theis, Swann Arlaud, Camille Rutherford, Antoine Reinartz, Drama, European, legal drama, Courtroom drama
Original-Cin Q&A: Nyad Directors & Trainer Recall the Epic Cuba/Florida Swim and Card Games With Actors Bening and Foster
By Bonnie Laufer
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The Persian Version: Nifty Bits Boost Cross-Cultural Mother-Daughter Conflict
ReviewJim SlotekMaryam Keshavarz, Niousha Noor, Layla Mohammadi, Mother-daughter, Cross Cultural, Comedy, Drama, LQBT, Sundance, The Persian Version
Killers of the Flower Moon: Scorsese at His Best Documents America at its Worst
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekKillers of The Flower Moon, Adaptation, David Grann, Eric Roth, Marin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tantoo Cardinal, Lily Gladstone, American, Based on a true story, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow
John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams: It Wouldn’t Be Halloween Without Him
Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Person: Bloodless in the Best Way
By Chris Knight
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Original-Cin Interview: Relax, I’m From the Future’s Director on Opportune Casting
By Chris Knight
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Lessons In Chemistry: Brie Larson Stars in Feminist Cooking Show Fable
ReviewJim SlotekLessons in Chemistry, Apple TV +, Lee Eisenberg, Bonnie Garmus, Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Alice Halsey, Adaptation, Period piece
Foe: Faux Portrait of a Post-Apocalyptic Marriage
ReviewJim SlotekPost apocalyptic stories, Climate change, Foe, Humans leaving Earth to survive, Artificial intelligence, Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre, Garth Davis, Iain Reid
October: A Month of Festivals to Improve the World - Planet in Focus, ImagineNATIVE, Rendezvous With Madness
Original-Cin Q&A: Strange Planet's Nathan W. Pyle on 'Jitter Liquid,' 'Star Damage' and Whether ETs Wear Socks
By Bonnie Laufer
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