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I'm Not in Love - A mild little sort-of-romcom that's not actually that romantic or funny. Its characters all seem permanently depressed, although none of them is quite as confused,...

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Palm Springs - Cross Groundhog Day with 50 First Kisses, and add about 99 'f-bombs' and what do you get? Palm Springs that's what! This 'deja vu' comedy...

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Sound of Metal - A heavy metal drummer wakes up one morning to find he has lost his hearing. At nighttime gigs, Ruben (Ahmed) and his singing/romantic partner Lou (Cooke) break the...

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Minari - In the 1980s, a Korean family emigrates to America and ends up buying a farmland home in Arkansas, which, to the wife's (Han) dismay proves to be little more than a...

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Last Call - Now this is the kind of film I really should like. Bay boy made good (Piven) returns from Philadelphia to his depressed coastal home town of Darby Heights for his...

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Croupier (reissue) - Scarcely shown at the time of its original release in 1999 (after two years on the shelf), this compulsively watchable neo-noir is now widely available, thanks to its...

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Shortcut - A teens-in-danger horror movie that has familiar elements slapped together in random fashion with no regard to logic. Explanations are non-existent since it is merely...

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Retaliation - Catholic guilt, portrayed with rather more flair recently in Saint Maud, is again the subject in this unrelentingly grim examination of the lasting effects of...

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