Coming at a particularly desperate moment, Springsteen’s songs about being stuck in a small town rut and yearning for more strike a chord with a Pakistani teen and his dreams of escape.
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Film review: ‘Ready or Not’
With their fleet, funny, and gleefully bloodthirsty horror-comedy, directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett deliver a satisfying skewering of the one-percenters with a deadly game of hide-and-seek.
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Film review: ‘Honeyland’
Offering an intimate portrait of a life lived in harmony with the natural world, the film follows Hatidze Muratova, the last in a long line of Macedonia’s nomadic beekeepers, living isolated in the mountainous region deep within the Balkans.
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Film review: ‘Maiden’
The gripping documentary recounts the story of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and her dream of leading the first all-female crew to sail the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race. It offers an inspiring look at an unsung trailblazer in the fight against sexism in the world of sports.
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Film: reflecting on Rutger Hauer’s work
Dutch actor Rutger Hauer passed away in his Netherlands home on July 19 at the age of 75. With a prolific and versatile career, Hauer was an actor with the unique ability to make a movie better simply by being in it. He mastered the art of delivering legitimately great performances in even the schlockiest of films.
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Film review: ‘Crawl’
It’s a film with little on its mind besides pure excitement, and you could probably read some minor commentary about the climate and global warming’s effect on severe weather events that force animals to find new hunting grounds. But that’s not really the focus here.
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Film review: ‘Wild Rose’
Telling the story of a Scotland-based singer who dreams of making it as a Nashville country music star, “Wild Rose” is touching, toe-tapping musical dramedy anchored by a dynamite performance from star Jessie Buckley.
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Film review: ‘Midsommar’
Human emotions are the real horror in Ari Aster’s films. With his ambitious sophomore film “Midsommar,” he uses the context of horror to explore grief, depression, and the detrimental effect of toxic relationships. And for good measure, Swedish pagan solstice rituals.
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Film review: ‘Echo in the Canyon’
There’s enough potential material here to fill an entire miniseries, but crammed into a barely 90-minute runtime, it comes in bits and pieces and feels wildly incomplete. It doesn’t help that large chunks are taken up by covers performed by Jakob Dylan and some of his 90’s-era contemporaries.
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Film review: ‘Toy Story 4’
That this latest installment is the funniest and most idiosyncratic of the series so far shows that it’s entirely possible there’s enough juice left in these stories to take Woody, Buzz, and the gang to infinity and beyond, free to continue giving generations of viewers neuroses about never getting rid of our old toys.
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All the ‘Child’s Play’ movies, ranked
Who’d have thought that a horror series about a wise-cracking killer doll would have been able to sustain itself for three decades? In time for the release of a new reimagining of “Child’s Play” in theaters, CITY takes a look back at how each of the movies in the series stack up.
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Film review: ‘Men in Black: International’
Reuniting “Thor: Ragnarok” co-stars Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth should have been a home run, but “Men in Black: International” whiffs it by refusing to take any chances whatsoever. Gone is the imagination and wit that made the original such a success; in its place is a lifeless and unforgivably generic piece of studio content.
