Recent Reviews
Conclave (2024)
Superb performances by Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini are the most inspired aspects of this religious semi-thriller
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An Ethics Lesson (2013)
You may feel guilty watching this whacky dark comedy, which is a tad bloody and perverse; but also oddly fun
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Secretly Greatly (2012)
Uncommonly ridiculous tale of North Korean spies whose mission in the South is to act like idiots and then die
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The Devil’s Deal (2023)
A twisty tale of corrupt politicians, the gangsters behind them, and the innocents caught in the crossfire
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
Director Kim Jee-won’s ‘Kimchi Western’ tour-de-force that you can follow even without subtitles
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The Mother (2023)
Jennifer Lopez brings the intensity, but the plot is outrageously overblown at every turn
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Canary Black (2024)
Kate Beckinsale gives it her all, but she can’t save this predictable spy thriller whose twist you spot right away
Spy Game (2001)
Robert Redford keeps you – and his colleagues – guessing as he races to save protégé Brad Pitt
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Trap (2024)
Josh Harnett is the only reason to see Trap, for a closing shot that evokes Norman Bates in that Hitchcock classic
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The Woman in the Window (2021)
Let this be a lesson to filmmakers trying to emulate a masterwork like ‘Rear Window’: Less is more
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Rebel Ridge (2024)
Jeremy Saulnier proves you can deliver a white-knuckle experience without the overworked gunplay and gore