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‘The Odyssey’ ($1.8M) Is Back at No. 1 at the Box Office, Dethroning ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ ($1.7M)

Watch out for “The Odyssey,” which, after a $1.8M Wednesday, is back at #1 at the domestic box office, dethroning “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which grossed $1.7M.

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‘Bucking Fastard’ is Bucking Bad [Review]

There are a few laughs, mostly at the start, and occasional visual treats, including a jaw-dropping cave setting in the final stretch, but the movie increasingly feels like an experiment in narrative improvisation.

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Telluride Lineup includes ‘The Debut,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine,’ ‘Tender Loving Care’ ‘Alpha Gang’ and ‘The Long Winter’

World Premieres will include Simon Stone’s “Elsinore,” Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Debut,” Mike Leigh’s “Tender Loving Care,” Andrew Haigh’s “A Long Winter,” and The Zellner’s “Alpha Gang.”

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Monica Barbaro and Margaret Qualley in the Mix for Tom Holland’s Fred Astaire Biopic

The actresses being considered to play Adele Astaire — Fred’s older sister — in the Paul King-directed biopic are now down to Monica Barbaro and Margaret Qualley.

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‘The Uprising’ Draws Negative Early Reactions — Not A Robin Hood Movie?

Andrew Garfield leads the peasant revolt in Paul Greengrass’ “The Uprising,” and the first reactions are mostly mixed-to-negative, which is unusual these days

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August 19, 2019
3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
August 19, 2019

This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

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Scott Rudin is Back to Producing For A24

March 7, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

It was inevitable that Scott Rudin would eventually get uncanceled.

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Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ Getting Overpraised [Review]

March 7, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

You can sense the sanctimony in some of these “Turning Red” reviews. An 85 on Metacritic, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yes, my review is a semi-positive one, but this is nowhere near a great movie.

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What Did You Think of ‘The Batman’?

March 6, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” nabbed a $128 million opening this weekend. That’s a staggering amount of dough. It also garnered an A- CinemaScore and an excellent 8.6 on IMDB.

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Ildiko Enyedi’s Next Film Will Revolve Around a 100-Year-Old Bisexual Tree

March 6, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Sometimes you read something that seems like a joke, but, friends, I can assure you that the below is not a prank.

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Sarah Polley Hasn’t Directed a Film in Nine Years Due to a Severe Concussion

March 5, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley hasn’t made a film since the acclaimed 2012 documentary “Stories We Tell.” Before then, she had made two powerful original dramas, “Away From Her,” and “Take This Waltz.”

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‘Ahed’s Knee’: Nadav Lapid’s Self- Aggrandizing Political Statement [Review]

March 5, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Nadav Lapid‘s Ahed’s Knee is a big whatever. It did however make me wonder about the dynamic he had with his late mother — for whom this film is dedicated to. Otherwise, this is self-aggrandizing stuff and the kind of film that may have gotten raved about at Cannes, but will quickly be forgotten come its release date.

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Daniel Kaluuya’s Personal On-Set ‘Life Strategist’ is Annoying Everyone Around Him

March 5, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

It turns out Daniel Kaluuya has gone off the deep-end and rubbed people the wrong way with his newly-attained celeb status.

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Oscars: Assessing the 21st Century Best Picture Winners

March 5, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

The Oscars rarely get it right. I’ve been scrolling through every single one of the 21st century’s Best Picture winners and couldn’t find more than 2 or 3 instances when they actually awarded the best movie of the year:

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Paul Schrader’s ‘The Master Gardener’ Wraps 4-Week Shoot

March 4, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

This above is a shot of Paul Schrader on the set of “The Master Gardener.” The film has wrapped its breezy 4-week shoot.

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Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ Will Skip Cannes and Premiere at Venice Instead

March 4, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

It doesn’t look as though Wes Anderson will be bringing a movie to Cannes for the second year in a row.

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Cannes 75 is a Little More Than Two Months Away

March 3, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Variety’s Elsa Keslassy has become one of the more trust-worthy Cannes insiders out there. Her piece today, weighing around a dozen titles that are destined to premiere at the festival aligns pretty well with the intel I’ve been gathering these last few months.

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‘Triangle of Sadness’: Ruben Ostlund Currently Trimming a 3-Hour Cut for Cannes

March 3, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Back in November, I had mentioned that Ruben Ostlund had already submitted to Cannes a rough cut of his upcoming movie “Triangle of Sadness.”

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Adam Sandler’s ‘Spaceman’ Was Test-Screened Last Month

March 2, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

There was an online test-screening on 02.09.22 for “Spaceman,” which stars Adam Sandler as Jakub Procházka and Carey Mulligan as his wife Lenka. The film comes to us from director Johan Renck (“Chernobyl“), with a screenplay written by Colby Day.

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If You Want to Watch ‘The Batman’ in NYC, it’ll Cost You $29. Per Ticket.

March 2, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Blame it on the inflation, or just those plain greedy theatre owners, regardless, watching “The Batman” will cost you an arm and a leg if you live in a big US city.

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‘The Batman’ Set For $120 Million-Plus Box Office Debut

March 2, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s another superhero movie that will shatter COVID-era expectations.

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Oscars: Despite Jessica Chastain’s SAG Win, Best Actress is Still Impossible to Predict

March 2, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

I’ve been saying for a few months now that Jessica Chastain might sneak up a victory come Oscar night, but her win at the Screen Actors Guild this past Sunday was nevertheless surprising.

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‘Fresh’: Shocking Genre Movie Redefines the Rom-Com [Capsule]

March 2, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

The frustrations of online dating are satirically tackled in Mimi Cave’s “Fresh”.

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Pixar Has Lost its Creative Mojo

March 1, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Between 2000-2010 every movie Pixar released either very good or a flat-out masterpiece.

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Madonna Has Decided to Direct Biopic About Her Own Life

March 1, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Madonna is a terrible director. She’s already perpetrated on us the unwatchable “W.E,” and the atrocious “Filth and Wisdom,” but that clearly wasn’t enough.

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Cannes Film Festival Bans “Official Russian Delegations”; Nothing Said About Russian Films

March 1, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

The Cannes Film Festival has released a statement in which they stated they would be banning “Russian delegations” for this year’s edition, unless the war gets resolved.

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Good/Great Movies That Don't Deserve Their “Rotten" Scores

These 31 titles clearly have their share of detractors — that’s why they’re “rotten” — and I expect some people to question a few of these picks. That’s fine. However, I believe most are strong films, worth reevaluating.

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‘Dune: Part Three’ Reportedly “Blew Away" Warner Bros. With Rough 3-Hour Cut as New Teaser Stuns

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What is David Fincher’s Best Film? 100+ Critics Say, No Contest, It’s ‘Zodiac’

We managed to gather 118 ballots from critics, programmers, filmmakers, and scholars. Each was asked to submit a single title, the one they believe to be the best of Fincher’s filmography.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Glimpses of the Moon’ (Apparently) Starts Production This Month in Italy

Coppola has described “Glimpses” as a “strange 30s-style musical.” No cast has been announced. The film is a loose adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, “inspired” by Leo McCarey’s “The Awful Truth.”

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Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Tops the Best Films of the 1930s, According to 100+ Critics

We’ve gone through the decades. The ‘40s ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘2000s, and ‘2010s. — all revisited, argued over. Now, here are the results for the best films of the 1930s.

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Critics Poll: ‘Citizen Kane' Named Best Film of the 1940s

The results are in, and according to critics, this decade filled with cinematic riches did not have a better film than Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.” Nobody should be surprised by this result. “Citizen Kane” changed cinema forever.

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Critics Poll: ‘Vertigo’ Named Best Film of the 1950s, Over 120 Participants

It was a closer race than anticipated, but Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” has topped our best of the ’50s poll, besting Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s “Singin’ in the Rain” by just two votes.

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Critics Poll: Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Tops Our 1960s Critics Poll

We’ve already covered the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Now we have the results for the Best Films of the 1960s.

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