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Bodies Bodies Bodies is faux-woke horror that slays and satirizes with bloody glee
BODIES BODIES BODIES (2022). Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott. Credit: Erik Chakeen.
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Always excellent Aubrey Plaza is guilty of making Emily the Criminal a compelling thriller
Emily the Criminal (2022). Emily (Aubrey Plaza, shown) is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record. Desperate for income, she takes a shady gig as a “dummy shopper,” buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a handsome and charismatic middleman named Youcef (Theo Rossi). Faced with a series of dead-end job interviews, Emily soon finds herself seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills of black-market capitalism, and increasingly interested in her mentor Youcef. Together, they hatch a plan to bring their business to the next level in Los Angeles. Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions.
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Netflix miniseries Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 documents a music festival horrifically derailed
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99. Kid Rock in Trainwreck: Woodstock '99. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022
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Jo Koy’s Easter Sunday celebrates Filipino family, but stumbles over tropes
(from left) Susan (Lydia Gaston) and Joe Valencia (Jo Koy) in Easter Sunday, directed by Jay Chandrasekhar.
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TIFF reveals Discovery, Midnight Madness lineups, including Al Yankovic biopic
Daniel Radcliffe is Weird Al Yankovic with Quinta Brunson as Oprah Winfrey in the biopic which will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story," a Roku Channel original that charts the comedic musician's rise to fame and "famously depraved lifestyle," will serve as the opening film to TIFF's Midnight Madness programming. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Toronto International Film Festival
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Predator prequel Prey is an excellent slice of late-summer nastiness that deserves more than Disney+
Amber Midthunder as Naru and Dane DiLiegro as the Predator in 20th Century Studios' PREY, exclusively on Hulu. Photo by David Bukach. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
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Luck, John Lasseter’s Apple TV+ challenger to the Pixar throne, is more Cars than Toy Story
Bob (voiced by Simon Pegg) and Sam Greenfield (voiced by Eva Noblezada) in “Luck,” premiering August 5, 2022 on Apple TV+.
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Super-cringe pseudo-incest comedy I Love My Dad is the most uncomfortable movie of the year
L to R: Patton Oswalt and James Morosini in I LOVE MY DAD. Photo courtesy of Mongrel Media
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Rated Arrrrr: Why piracy is the high-stakes fight hurting Hollywood far more than the streaming war
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TIFF 2022: Hugh Jackman, Sarah Polley, Nicolas Cage and Jennifer Lawrence lead film fest’s comeback
People stand on a red carpet behind the TIFF logo at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, September 3, 2014.
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B.J. Novak ventures from The Office to Texas in the dry-as-dust satire Vengeance
(L to R) B.J. Novak as Ben Manalowitz and Boyd Holbrook as Ty Shaw in VENGEANCE, written and directed by B.J. Novak and released by Focus Features. Credit: Patti Perret / Focus Features
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Jono McLeod’s My Old School brings a unique sense of humanity to its story
MY OLD SCHOOL (2022). In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend
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DC League of Super-Pets is super-meh
This image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Krypto, voiced by Dwayne Johnson, in a scene from "DC League of Super Pets." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
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Rebecca Hall thriller Resurrection is the silliest, most disgusting head-shaker of the summer
RESURRECTION (2022). Psychological drama about a single mother, Margaret (Rebecca Hall, shown), who loses control over her carefully ordered life when a dangerous figure threatens the person she loves most: her teenage daughter (Grace Kaufman). Rather than being menaced by some stranger, it is someone from her past — a sadistic man named David (Tim Roth) — who haunts her. Courtesy of TIFF
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Charming romance Ali & Ava contains one unlikely surprise after another
ALI & AVA ( 2022). ALI (Adeel Akhtar) and AVA (Claire Rushbrook), both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of AVA's past relationship, and ALI's emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage. Courtesy of Game Theory Films
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Marvel teases new Avengers movies, Black Panther sequel
(From L) Actors Lupita Nyong'o, Letitia Wright, Danai Gurira, Florence Kasumba and Winston Duke present "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" at the Marvel panel in Hall H of the convention center during Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, July 23, 2022. (Photo by Chris Delmas / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Prime Video’s Thai cave rescue thriller Thirteen Lives is drippy drama, even with Viggo Mortensen in a wetsuit
(L to R) Thira ‘Aum’ Chutikul as Commander Kiet, Popetorn ‘Two’ Soonthornyanaku as Dr Karn, Joel Edgerton as Harry Harris, Colin Farrell as John Volanthen and Viggo Mortenson as Rick Stanton in THIRTEEN LIVES, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Credit: Vince Valitutti / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures © 2022 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Steven Spielberg to make first-ever appearance at TIFF with Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen drama The Fabelmans
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, file photo, filmmaker Steven Spielberg poses at the 2019 "An Unforgettable Evening" benefiting the Women's Cancer Research Fund, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Reports that Spielberg intends to support rule changes that could block Netflix from Oscars-eligibility have provoked a heated and unwieldy online debate. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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The biggest (and best) films of the summer are already available to stream. Here’s where to find them
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Country Gold is director Mickey Reece’s Lynchian love letter to the late George Jones
Set in 1994, COUNTRY GOLD stars Mickey Reece (right) as Troyal Brux, an up-and-coming country music superstar who is invited by country music legend George Jones (Ben Hall) for a night on the town in Nashville – the night before George is to be cryogenically frozen. Credit: Play It Cool LLC