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Kid Who Would Be King: Alex and the Apocalypse

Ever since I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the age of 13, it has ruined all other movies about King Arthur...

Next Goal Wins: Beach Soccer

Taika Waititi’s latest comedy is Next Goal Wins, and — oh no, it’s my imaginary question-asker from my soccer columns. He must have heard...

Wizard of Oz

It's been seven long years since we've seen a movie from Baz Luhrmann. The insanely original Australian director tried to make a film a...

The Other Elizabeth

In 1998, an Indian director and his Australian leading lady collaborated on Elizabeth, a chilling historical drama that brought their largely unknown names to...
Dave Bautista and RZA tangle near the end of "The Man With the Iron Fists."

Iron Fists: Wu, No!

Before he called himself RZA and conquered a big swath of the hip-hop world, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs was a teenager in New York, escaping...

Top Docs of ’23

Even before the pandemic, people predicted the dismal current state of documentary films. Nonfiction is drawing next to no one at the theaters, and...

Moment: Sorry, Charli

I don’t know enough about the music of Charlotte Aitchison a.k.a. Charli xcx to call myself a fan, though I’ve tended to admire the...

One Night in Miami: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

Fresh from winning a well-deserved Oscar for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk, Regina King now she makes her debut as a...

undertone: Hear the Fear

You knew this was coming: a horror movie about making a podcast. Horror movies do rely on sound more than most other genres, and...
Gru tries to get his minions back to work in Despicable Me 2.

Gru Some More

Most of the creative personnel from Despicable Me have carried over to the sequel, Despicable Me 2, so we shouldn’t be surprised to find...