One Degree of Kevin Bacon
‘You Should Have Left’ is a thinly-constructed haunted-house movie from Blumhouse
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Author: Stephen Garrett
‘Irresistible’: Jon Stewart Imagines a Semi-Normal Political System
Cynically optimistic, made before the current crisis
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‘You Don’t Nomi’ and the Cult of ‘Showgirls’
Documentary chronicles our obsession with a masterpiece of shit
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‘The King of Staten Island’ Haz a Sad
In the new Judd Apatow film, Pete Davidson plays a tattooed basket case whose firefighter dad died when he was a kid
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‘The High Note,’ more like a medium note
A shiny, modest melodrama about perfectly reasonable people
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‘The Lovebirds’: Hipster Creatives on the Lam
Easygoing chemistry floats a dumb caper comedy
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‘Capone’ Shits the Bed
A crazed scatological portrait of a gangster’s endgame
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‘Extraction’: Hemsworth Brings the Pain
Stern faces, grim action in the most-popular Netflix movie ever
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‘Planet of the Humans’ is a Reactionary Screed
The worst form of purity-test liberalism
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‘Circus Of Books’ is Soft at the Core
A squeaky-clean documentary about the legendary L.A. porn shop
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‘Love Wedding Repeat’ is a Retread
One wedding, many times, and no funeral
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Someone is Trolling Us
‘Trolls World Tour’: good-natured, trippy pop garbage
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‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
An excellent movie about the bad options available to a small-town pregnant teen
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Movie Theaters are Dead. Long Live Movie Theaters!
Filmgoing is done for now. But is it done for?
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‘The Hunt’ Mocks Us All
An appropriate final movie release before the apocalypse
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