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MUBI Fest 2026: Better Together
MUBI Fest returned to Chicago for the third time this year with its most varied and robust line-up yet, further cementing it as an art powerhouse that thieves in creating films in conversation with cinema canon. That Chicago remains...
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“Ride or Die”: Two Best Friends, Too Many Lies, and a Good Reason to Get a Fake Passport
“Ride or Die” arrives on Prime Video this week, and its title is accurate in multiple ways. Calling someone your “ride or die” means they’ve got your back no matter what: you need to bury a body, they’ve got...
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Freaks, Samurais, and Vampires: Our 10 Most Anticipated of Fantasia 2026
The 30th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is upon us, perhaps the largest genre film festival in the world (and, for my money, my favorite), setting nearly three weeks aside at the tail end of July to...
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Netflix’s Aggressively Wholesome “Little House on the Prairie” Plays It Safe
“Little House on the Prairie” is an American institution. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s fictionalized semi-autobiographical accounts of growing up on the American frontier in the 1870s and 1880s have been wildly popular since the first book’s original publication in 1932...
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Join the Golden Age of Piracy in Engrossing “Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced”
For thirteen years now, Ubisoft has been chasing a pirate. While there have been some great “Assassin’s Creed” games since the 2013 release of “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag” (I’m particularly fond of “Origins” and “Odyssey”), and a truly...
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A Leaning Tower of Camp: John Early on “Maddie’s Secret”
The first thing you need to know about comedian-turned-actor-turned-filmmaker John Early‘s performance in “Maddie’s Secret” is that it is, at its core, deeply serious. It is also, at least in Early’s estimation, not drag, despite the central character at...
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Peacock’s “The Five-Star Weekend” Is Way More Than Pedestrian Housewife Melodrama
We certainly have a glut of these shows—you know the ones where thin white people convene on a cold beach to compare notes and solve intrigues. Nicole Kidman has practically made a cottage industry out of them: “Big Little...
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You Have to Commit: Robert Richardson on “Robert Richardson: The White Devil”
In Czech director Jana Hojdová’s raw, brazenly honest documentary, “Robert Richardson: The White Devil,” the legendary director of photography finds himself in a curious position. After decades capturing a plethora of towering films: “Platoon,” “Born on the Fourth of...
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India’s education minister steps down after weeks of protests led by “Cockroach” party
India's education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after weeks of protests that demanded his...