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Michael B. Jordan in SINNERS. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.
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‘Sinners’ is the best movie of the year | movie review

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in Queer. Courtesy of A24.
Drama

‘Queer’ is messy, mad and marvelous | review and analysis

Francesca Corio and Paul Mescal in Aftersun.
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‘Aftersun’ is a masterpiece of memory | review and analysis

‘The Holdovers’ needs more Joy | review and analysis

ComedyRyan OquizaNovember 20, 2023
Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers

A curmudgeonly professor, troublemaking student and kitchen manager are forced to spend winter break in an isolated boarding school. But they find warmth and family in the cold in The Holdovers.

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Colman Domingo gives ‘Rustin’ the megaphone | review

DramaKarl DelossantosOctober 20, 2023
Colman Domingo in Rustin. Courtesy of Netflix.

In Netflix’s new biopic, Colman Domingo plays civil rights activist Bayard Rustin as he plans the March on Washington in just eight weeks

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Fair Play review: Love, work, sex, and power | review

DramaKarl DelossantosJanuary 23, 20231
Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich appear in Fair Play by Chloe Domont, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Sundance 2023 | Fair Play follows a happy couple that is thrown into turmoil when one of them is promoted at the financial firm they work at Fair Play is a corporate barn burner and relationship psychosexual drama that's thrilling as it is brutally precise in its study of power, sex, attraction, and ambition. Phoebe…
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Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ is a chopped and screwed summer blockbuster | review and analysis

ActionKarl DelossantosJuly 20, 2022
Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood in Nope, written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele.

Nope follows two siblings that become convinced that UFOs are visiting their ranch to abduct horses. Seeing a path to fortune, they set out to capture it on video.

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Nicolas Cage stalks people’s dreams in ‘Dream Scenario’ | Trailer & Release Date

Movie NewsSmash Cut ReviewsSeptember 19, 20231
Nicolas Cage in Dream Scenario. Courtesy of TIFF.

Nicolas Cage plays a boring middle-aged man propelled into fame when he appears in everyone’s dreams in the first trailer of Dream Scenario

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High school farce ‘Bottoms’ rides on top | review

ComedyKarl DelossantosAugust 25, 2023
Ayo Edebiri stars as Josie and Rachel Sennott as PJ in BOTTOMS An Orion Pictures Release Photo Credit Patti Perret Copyright © 2023 ORION RELEASING LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Bottoms follows two deeply uncool high school girls that create a self-defense club with the hope of wooing their cheerleader crushes

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‘Passages’ review: Entanglements in love and sex | Sundance

DramaKarl DelossantosJanuary 27, 2023
Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos appear in Passages by Ira Sachs, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Guy Ferrandis / SBS PRODUCTIONS

Ira Sachs’s Passages follows a married gay film director as his affair with a woman implodes his marriage.

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‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ is the sappy gay fairytale we deserve | review

ComedyKarl DelossantosAugust 10, 20231
Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Henry and Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex Claremont-Diaz in Prime Video’s Red, White & Royal Blue.

Red, White & Royal Blue follows the star-crossed romance between the First Son of the United States and a British prince

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‘American Fiction’ satirically rewrites race into Hollywood | review

ComedyKarl DelossantosSeptember 17, 2023
Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction. Courtesy of TIFF.

American Fiction follows a fed-up Black author who sarcastically writes a “Black novel” to poke fun at the media’s hypocrisy only to find himself with his most success to date

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‘Unicorns’ is a glittering unlikely queer romance | review

DramaKarl DelossantosSeptember 9, 2023
Ben Hardy and Jason Patel star in Unicorns. Courtesy of TIFF.

Unicorns follows a South Asian drag queen and Essex mechanic’s sparkling will-they-won’t-they romance of queer discovery and joy

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