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Nope (2022)

W ith Nope, writer-director Jordan Peele delivers a bizarre, fascinating hybrid movie:  On one hand, this is a burly sci-fi spectacle, with obvious echoes of Close Encounters, War of the Worlds,…

Zodiac (2007)

D avid Fincher's Zodiac effectively encapsulates the massive manhunt for the serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area from the 60s through the late 70s.  His theatrical villainy would…

Nightmare Alley (2021)

W ithin Guillermo del Toro's ambitious, eccentric Nightmare Alley, two very different movies form an awkward coexistence:  For much of its first half, we see the dark, sprawling topography of a…

Last Night in Soho (2021)

Y our tolerance for this wacky, atmospheric thriller will depend on your affinity for the freewheeling era known as Swinging London.  If the thought of a film built around the…

Candyman (2021)

Candyman provokes an intriguing question: Is a gory slasher flick the appropriate vessel for important socio-cultural commentary? I grappled with the answer for much of the movie's runtime,…

La Llorona (2020)

Writer-director Jayro Bustamante’s newest film merges that infamous piece of folklore with the saga of a disgraced dictator, thus mingling supernatural horror with elements of real-life atrocities.

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