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BASED ON A TRUE STORY Review: Dark Comedy Barks, Sometimes Bites

Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina and Tom Bateman star in the dark comedy series, debuting on Peacock TV.

Cannes 2023 Review: ASTEROID CITY, Powerful Play of Imagination

Wes Anderson's new film.

PLATONIC Review: With Friends Like These

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne reunite with 'Neighbors' director Nicholas Stoller for a raunchy comedy series, now streaming on Apple TV+.

THE WRATH OF BECKY Review: Teenage Girl Versus Upscale White Supremacists

Lulu Wilson and Seann William Scott star in a brutal thriller, directed by Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote.

Cannes 2023 Review: OCCUPIED CITY, Tales From WWII-Era Amsterdam

Steve McQueen directs a 4.5 hour Holocaust documentary.

THE THIEF COLLECTOR Review: Engaging Real-World Art-Heist Doc

Allison Otto directed the documentary.

MASTER GARDENER Review: A Kind of Staid Pastiche

Director Paul Schrader's new film stars Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver and Quintessa Swindell.

WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP Review: Neither Can This Movie

Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow star in a limp remake, co-written and produced by Kenya Barris, directed by Calmatic, and debuting on Hulu.

THELMA & LOUISE Blu-ray Review: Soaring Into the Criterion Collection

Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star; Ridley Scott directed. An American studio masterpiece has never looked better.

DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, Kurosawa's 4K DREAMS: Criterion in August 2023

Let's start with a little dim sum before night falls and dreams begin. In August 2023, The Criterion Collection will release Wayne Wang's Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart on Blu-ray and Akira Kurosawa's Dreams in 4K, which makes...

CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER Blu-ray Review: Melancholy Romantic Travails

John Heard and Mary Beth Hurt star in director Joan Micklin Silver's 1979 film of romantic obsession, now on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.

Chicago Critics 2023 Review: SANCTUARY Is More SECRETARY Than BASIC INSTINCT

Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott star; Zachary Wigon directed.

CARMEN Review: Opera Tale Reimagined As Immigration Drama

Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal sing and dance in choreographer-turned-director Benjamin Millepied's debut feature.

SILO Review: I Want to Go Outside

Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Rebecca Ferguson, Common and Tim Robbins star in the sci-fi series, created by Graham Yost, debuting on the Apple TV+ streaming service.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Review: Closing Time

Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper star. James Gunn wrote and directed the Marvel adventure.

Hot Docs 2023 Review: ANGEL APPLICANT Reveals the Art of Survival

Ken A. Meyer directed, created an emotionally engaging, culturally relevant, and socially influential double portrait of artist Paul Klee and himself, dealing with the same disease.

DANIELA FOREVER: Beatrice GrannĂ² Joins Henry Golding in Nacho Vigalondo's Sci-Fi Romance

Beatrice GrannĂ², who exquisitely captured her character's journey in Mike White's The White Lotus, Season 2, will star opposite Henry Golding in a new film by Nacho Vigalondo, Daniela Forever. Per the official description: "Struggling to come to terms with...

GOD IS A BULLET Heads to US Theaters With Maika Monroe, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

His ex-wife? Murdered. His daughter? Kidnapped by a dangerous cult. Yeah, it's been a bad day for detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). In God Is a Bullet, based on a novel by Boston Teran, which in turn was inspired by...

THE ARTIFICE GIRL Review: Indie Sci-Fi Done Right

Franklin Ritch, Sinda Nichols, David Girard, and Lance Henriksen star in the sci-fi mystery thriller, directed by Franklin Ritch.

Panic Fest 2023 Review: TRIM SEASON, This Weed Will Get You Harmed

Directed by Ariel Vida, the horror thriller stars Bethlehem Million, Alex Essoe, and Jane Badler.