"At long last, “Midsommar” asks the cinematic question we’ve all been waiting for: How, precisely, does one say “completely bonkers” in Swedish?" wrote Ann Hornaday in 2019.

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"Creepy, creepy, creepy. Writer-director Ari Aster makes an impressively unnerving debut with “Hereditary,” a meticulously crafted horror thriller starring Toni Collette," wrote Ann Hornaday in 2018.

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"Few filmmakers portray the Black American experience with so much heart and so little finesse as Tyler Perry. Doesn’t matter if his movies aren’t art — they reach an audience whether they’re comedies (his Madea movies), middle-class melodramas or period pieces like 2024’s World War II-era “The Six Triple Eight.” That last was a high point in a career of directing nearly 30 movies in 20 years, not counting Perry’s many TV shows and stage plays — a run of inspired workaholism that has made the writer-director one of the most financially successful filmmakers of his generation," writes Ty Burr.

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"Half a century after Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” stirred fear and fascination by painting sharks as bloodthirsty monsters of the sea, the tongue-in-cheek horror thriller “Dangerous Animals” gets its kicks watching a predator in cargo shorts and flip-flops — not one with a dorsal fin and sharp teeth — toying with his prey," writes Jen Yamato

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"Justin Kuritzkes’s ingenious screenplay is structured around a single tennis match in 2019 between top-seeded superstar Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) and tournament-circuit bum Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor), with flashbacks that slowly fill in a complicated backstory. Each time we return to that central game, our understanding of the players and the stakes has completely changed, so if you want the movie to properly uncork all its surprises, come back to this review after you’ve come home from the theater. I’d stay away from the film’s trailer, while you’re at it," wrote Ty Burr in 2024.

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"Celine Song makes a quietly spectacular writing-directing debut with “Past Lives,” a lyrical slow burn of a film that expertly holds back wellsprings of emotion, until it unleashes a deluge," wrote Ann Hornaday in 2023.

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"If you know, you know: In the 1990s, the group fronted by California native Stephen Malkmus was a low-fi phenomenon, snatching snippets of everything from the Velvet Underground to Alex Chilton to create its own defiantly un-pandering scrounge act. Evolving in a decade from underground to indie to almost-breakthrough to college rock canonization, the band broke up in 1999, four years after a disastrous, mud-flinging performance at Lollapalooza. Although Pavement was never hugely commercial, it was disproportionately influential, its albums defining Gen X alienation like the chipped-vinyl equivalent of “Reality Bites” on repeat," writes Ann Hornaday.

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"When the history of the decline of American moviegoing is written, one savior will deserve mention: Wes Anderson.

During a period of churning audiences and a lemminglike rush toward streaming, the eight-time Oscar nominee has made movies that have reliably coaxed spectators back into brick-and-mortar theaters. Like Christopher Nolan and James Cameron, Anderson has become a reliable brand," writes Ann Hornaday.

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It's not quiet a John Wick movie, but it's also totally a John Wick movie.

"And so the City of Angels is a natural set piece for "Constantine," a dreary (and possibly profane, for certain Sunday schoolers) action thriller rife with theo-core cliches owed to everyone from Linda Blair to the Baltimore Catechism to "Oh God, You Devil!" wrote Hank Stuever in 2005

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"Stahelski ups the ante from the previous three films with one amazing set piece after another — a chase scene set in the desert, on horseback; a bloodbath in a discothèque decorated with waterfalls; visits to Osaka and Berlin — each sequence outdoing the one before," wrote Michael O'Sullivan in 2023.

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