Mental health crisis, poor script disastrously collide in ‘Encounter’
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It’s not so much that the film’s points are vague as it is that they lack direction.
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Horror movies for people who don’t like horror
Horror movies are experiencing a renaissance right now. Like me, you might’ve wanted to see them and participate in the discourse but were too scared.
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‘The Binding’ is generic yet beautiful Italian summer horror film
In an era of one Netflix production after another, “The Binding” is, well, just another. Nothing about director Domenico Emanuele de Feudis’ Netflix debut screams extraordinary.
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An anti-racism watchlist: The start, not the solution
One of many steps non-Black allies are taking to dislodge an indoctrinated white perspective is to infuse their watchlists with media that confronts racism and the realities of Black people in America.
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It’s time for the Academy Awards to stop handing out ‘career Oscars’
It’s time for the Oscars to dispense with the waiting, and instead award the year’s brightest performances the first time around.
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Reasons why the Tethered from ‘Us’ wouldn’t want to trade lives with UC Berkeley students
Here are five things about UC Berkeley that‘ll have the Tethered thinking twice about attempting to step foot on campus grounds.
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Jordan Peele explores trauma of introspection in ambitious, stunning horror film ‘Us’
One thing’s certain: Whether or not it’s the year’s best film, it’s sure to be the year’s most daring, sophisticated and terrifying.
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What more does a genre film such as ‘Black Panther’ have to do to win Best Picture?
If your film is a commercial film, it has to reinvent its genre of choice, be constantly talked about by the press and audiences and/or have a hefty studio campaign budget standing behind it to even stand a chance at getting nominated. And then you’ll still lose to stuff such as “The Shape of Water.”
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Haunted houses and boogeymen
Views from the Outside
As a Black person, I already spend enough of my time looking over my shoulder for very real threats to my safety. Now we have to add supernatural threats to the list? Come on, guys. Give it a rest.
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15 summer movies you can’t miss
“Avengers: Infinity War” heralded the start of the summer movie season, kicking off a four-month period in which CGI spectacle reigns supreme.
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