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Extreme Job: Chicken Cops
I was waiting my whole life for someone to make a movie about fried chicken. I didn’t know that until I actually saw Extreme...
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Beneath the Leaves (NR) This thriller stars Kristoffer Polaha as a cop who’s forced to catch the escaped convict (Doug Jones) who kidnapped him...
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An Affair to Die For (NR) Jake Abel and Claire Forlani play adulterous spouses whose affair leads to violence. Also with Nathan Cooper, Melina...
Destroyer: Violent Cop
Movies so often depict loose-cannon cops as heroes, men (it’s always men) who work for the law but happily ignore it to leave the...
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...
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Cold War (R) Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, this black-and-white Polish drama by Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida) is about a composer and a...
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Canal Street (PG-13) This legal drama stars Mykelti Williamson as a lawyer forced to defend his son (Bryshere Y. Gray) when he’s suspected of...
Beale Street: Dusky Dream Harlem
The movies have mostly neglected James Baldwin, but the 20th-century novelist and essayist foresaw everything that’s happening in Trump’s America, so it’s good that...
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Anthem of a Teenage Prophet (NR) Cameron Monaghan stars in this thriller as a teenager who becomes a social outcast when he discovers he...
Best Documentaries of ’18
I wanted to pay tribute to as many films as possible this year, which is why I left the docs off my Top 10...
