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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Bandersnatch is both a throwback to and is inspired by those classic ‘80s and ‘90s Choose Your Own Adventure games and books, and in a quiet nod to George Orwell, is set in the year 1984. You don’t merely watch Bandersnatch; you participate in it. You decide where you want to take the story. You play God, literally. Your subject is a young geek named Stefan (played…

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#Alice Lowe #Asim Chaudhry #Catriona Knox #Craig Parkinson #David Slade #Fionn Whitehead #Jonathan Aris #Tallulah Haddon #Will Poulter

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Ocean's 8 (2018)

Ocean’s 8 (2018)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. ‘Ocean’s 8’ drops all the men in favour of a scintillating cast of women. The new all-women setup puts a fresh perspective on this heist franchise. As you’d expect from an ‘Ocean’s’ movie, this film has some great set pieces on planning the robbery. Because the film’s central characters are all women, their conversations mix the usual hustle talk with fashion, shopping…

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#Anne Hathaway #Awkwafina #Brian J. Carter #Cate Blanchett #Dakota Fanning #Daniella Rabbani #Deidre Goodwin #Elliott Gould #Gary Ross #Gemma Forbes #Griffin Dunne #Helena Bonham-Carter #Midori Francis #Mindy Kaling #Richard Armitage #Rihanna #Sandra Bullock #Whitney White

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Annabelle: Creation (2017)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. A good horror movie makes your heart leap out of your chest while simultaneously tugging at your heartstrings. And we’re happy to report that Annabelle: Creation, the fourth installment in The Conjuring franchise, is emotionally potent and downright scary. In pre-Barbie America, dollmaker Samuel Mullins (LaPaglia) lives on a ranch with wife Esther (Otto) and daughter…

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#Anthony LaPaglia #Brad Greenquist #David F. Sandberg #Lulu Wilson #Miranda Otto #Samara Lee #Stephanie Sigman #Talitha Eliana Bateman

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Archive (2020)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. In “Archive,” an isolated scientist methodically pursues an artificial-intelligence ideal, developing a sequence of human-android beings and recycling their various parts until the ultimate prototype is achieved. In his handsome debut feature, writer-director Gavin Rothery follows a similarly nifty process of assembly and reassembly, repurposing elements from assorted…

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#Gavin Rothery #Lia Williams #Peter Ferdinando #Rhona Mitra #Stacy Martin #Theo James #Toby Jones

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Truth or Dare (2018)

⭐⭐ Rating: 2 out of 5. When spring break starts, Markie Cameron (Violett Beane) cajoles her best friend Olivia Barron (Lucy Hale) into joining their gang in Mexico for a two-week vacation. On their last night, the already inebriated bunch of kids looks for more alcohol when a random stranger at the bar-Carter (Landon Liboiron) offers to take them to an abandoned missionary, in a secluded area,…

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#Hayden Szeto #Jeff Wadlow #Landon Liboiron #Lucy Hale #Nolan Gerard Funk #Sam Lerner #Sophia Ali #Tom Choi #Tyler Posey #Violett Beane

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Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5.  It’s been a decade since Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone), Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) met. They’ve had enough time to hone their zombie hunting and killing skills over the years and are now pretty good at it. Not only have they identified different types of zombies, and how to work as a team, they even see…

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#Abigail Breslin #Avan Jogia #Bill Murray #Emma Stone #Jesse Eisenberg #Luke Wilson #Rosario Dawson #Ruben Fleischer #Thomas Middleditch #Woody Harrelson #Zoey Deutch

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The Hate U Give (2018)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. The Hate U Give opens with a father giving his children The Talk — not the birds and the bees, but the heartbreaking one parents of black children eventually must have about how not to get killed by the police. It’s a scene we’ve seen a few versions of at the movies this year, and a scene we will likely see many more times in the coming years, and isn’t any less…

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#Algee Smith #Amandla Stenberg #Anthony Mackie #Common #George Tillman Jr. #Issa Rae #Regina Hall #Russell Hornsby #Sabrina Carpenter

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Fractured (2019)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Sam Worthington plays Ray Monroe, driving cross-country with his wife and young daughter to celebrate Thanksgiving with his parents. At a rest stop along the way, little Peri Monroe has a fall and breaks her arm. Ray and his wife rush her to a hospital they passed a few miles back, and immediately, things take a turn for the strange. Ray is asked odd personal questions…

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#Adjoa Andoh #Brad Anderson #Lauren Cochrane #Lily Rabe #Lucy Capri #Sam Worthington #Stephen Tobolowsky

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The Equalizer (2014)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Robert McCall (Washington) enjoys a quiet, rigid life. He wakes up early, times his morning routine, works at a Home Depot-like store, is friendly with his co-workers, eats a simple dinner, but despite his well-regimented routine, he can’t sleep. He spends his evenings at a late-night diner reading classic books and conversing with Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), a young…

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#Antoine Fuqua #Bill Pullman #Chloë Grace Moretz #David Harbour #Denzel Washington #Haley Bennett #Marton Csokas #Melissa Leo

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47 Meters Down (2017)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Summer and sharks have proven to be a pretty potent combination, which is the main draw in “47 Meters Down,” an old-fashioned “B” movie that offers its share of reasonably effective thrills, even if it gets predictably light-headed long before its over. The producers (among them Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who made the movie and then sold off the rights) caught…

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#Chris Johnson #Claire Holt #Johannes Roberts #Mandy Moore #Matthew Modine

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Triple Threat (2019)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. It all kicks off in a remote part of South East Asia, where guns-for-hire Devereaux (Michael Jai White) and Joey (Michael Bispeng) spring their remorseless leader Collins (Scott Adkins) from captivity. This results in a massacre, with the wife of villager Jaka (Uwais) being caught in the crossfire. Seeking vengeance, Jaka tracks down Payu (Jaa) and Long Fei (Chen), the…

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#Celina Jade #Iko Uwais #Jesse V. Johnson #Michael Bispeng #Michael Jai White #Scott Adkins #Tiger Hu Chen #Tony Jaa

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In the Tall Grass (2019)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 2.5 out of 5. On a cross-country drive, a pregnant woman and her companion (revealed to be her brother later on, but not before allowing you to presume he’s the father) stop on the highway after she has a bout of nausea. There is a church on one side of the road — the only building in sight — and an endless field of tall grass on the other. When the woman opens the car door to puke,…

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#Avery Whitted #Harrison Gilbertson #Laysla De Oliveira #Patrick Wilson #Vincenzo Natali #Will Buie Jr.

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The Mauritanian (2021)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Journeyman director Kevin Macdonald is a master at crafting dependably watchable dramas across a variety of genres. Like his compatriot David Mackenzie, he doesn’t make movies that are connected by shared themes or a common filmmaking style. You never quite know what you’re in for when you sit down to watch a Kevin Macdonald film, but chances are, you’ll emerge an…

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#Benedict Cumberbatch #Clayton Boyd #Corey Johnson #Jodie Foster #Kevin Macdonald #Shailene Woodley #Tahar Rahim #Zachary Levi

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Tag (2018)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Based on a true story (reported in a 2013 article in the Wall Street Journal), this comedy foillows a group of fortysomething manchildren who meet up one month out of every year to play the infantile game they’re been obsessing over since First Grade. It’s a competition that revels unashamedly in the male need to compete as a way of expressing a bro bond they’re unable…

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#Annabelle Wallis #Ed Helms #Hannibal Buress #Isla Fisher #Jake Johnson #Jeff Tomsic #Jeremy Renner #Jon Hamm #Leslie Bibb #Lil Rel Howery #Nora Dunn #Rashida Jones #Steve Berg

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Human Capital (2019)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. The first thing we see here is a restaurant worker bicycling home from work, only to be sideswiped by an SUV on a dark country road and left for dead. It takes some time before we get back to that incident, however, as the focus immediately shifts to the financial woes of real estate agent Drew (Liev Schreiber), who’s a bit stretched — and soon to be more so, once he…

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#Aasif Mandvi #Alex Wolff #Betty Gabriel #Fredric Lehne #Liev Schreiber #Marc Meyers #Marisa Tomei #Maya Hawke #Paul Sparks #Peter Sarsgaard

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Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Picking up a decade after the events of its predecessor, ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ starts off with an intriguing angle – to explore life after a near global catastrophe. But it soon reverts to the old threats, as the Kaiju return to wreak havoc. There are more than a few new recruits this time around: Cailee Spaeny’s Amara Namani is a valuable addition and seems to be a…

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#Adria Arjona #Burn Gorman #Cailee Spaeny #Charlie Day #Jin Zhang #John Boyega #Karan Brar #Rinko Kikuchi #Scott Eastwood #Steven S. DeKnight #Tian Jing #Wesley Wong

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Spectral (2016)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. When a mysterious force kills some of the world’s most powerful soldiers, Dr. Clyne (James Badge Dale), who’s among the top in his field, is sent to Europe by the government in order to discover what the disturbance might be. Joined by a special ops team, they discover that it’s an invisible, seemingly unstoppable ghost-like force, one that can smash through walls and…

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#Bruce Greenwood #Clayne Crawford #Cory Hardrict #Emily Mortimer #Gonzalo Menendez #James Badge Dale #Max Martini #Nic Mathieu #Ursula Parker