Under the Silver Lake
It’s easy to see why the long-delayed “Under the Silver Lake” has been something of a conundrum for A24, a film distributor that typically knows how to handle projects that may not appeal to a...
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Homecoming
When Beyoncé hit the stage for her two performances at Coachella last year, the audience would have been more than satisfied with a run-through of her greatest hits. Instead, she presented the audience, both in...
Breakthrough
There’s never any doubt that things will work out just fine in “Breakthrough,” and not only because Roxann Dawson’s movie is based on a true story. It’s also because of the film’s overtly Christian approach,...
The Curse of La Llorona
I may not have grown up with the legend of La Llorona, but I grew up with a healthy respect for superstitions and things that cannot be explained. In a number of Latinx communities,...
Guava Island
Filmed in secret in Cuba and released with little fanfare on Amazon this morning, “Guava Island” is a musical-romance-thriller from the team behind FX’s “Atlanta,” director Hiro Murai and its star, the unstoppable Donald...
Missing Link
“Missing Link,” a 19th century buddy picture starring an English explorer and Bigfoot, is the fifth feature from Laika, an animation studio that’s as much a creature of its proper time period as the...
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