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Orphan: First Kill — William Brent Bell

Orphan: First Kill lacks the pulpy playfulness and satirical intent of the original, entirely misunderstanding its appeal and rendering this sequel an underwhelming curiosity at…

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Spin Me Round — Jeff Baena

Spin Me Round, which bafflingly sidelines its most intriguing performer halfway through, ultimately offers little more than a light subversion of European vacay romcoms.…

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Album Roundup — July 2022 | Part 1: Beyonce, Amanda Shires, Ken Carson

Beyoncé Dropping just over a month after Drizzy’s divisive, house music-inflected megamix, listening through Beyoncé’s sinuous dance record might provoke commentary like the text…

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Girl Picture — Alli Haapasalo

Girl Picture is a pop-oriented confection of little substance, vapid writing, and seeming contempt for its characters. Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture is a confounding frustration.…

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Casque d’or — Jacques Becker

“The mise-en-scène flexes emotion like you flex your muscles.” So said Bertrand Tavernier of Jacques Becker’s Casque d’or, an observation applicable to the latter’s…

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by Patrick Preziosi• by Ryan Swen• Feature Articles• Featured• Film

Irma Vep — Olivier Assayas: A Dialogue on Episode 8

August 10, 2022

Patrick: So we’ve made it to the finale, Ryan. In our last correspondence I wrote of Assayas’ proclivity for compartmentalization, boxing different characters away once they’d…

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Orphan: First Kill - Paramount Pictures - William Brent Bell - Paramount+
Credit: Paramount Pictures
by M.G. Mailloux• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Orphan: First Kill — William Brent Bell

August 16, 2022
Credit: Sean McElwee
by Chris Mello• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Spin Me Round — Jeff Baena

August 16, 2022
Beyonce, Renaissance, Columbia
Credit: Robert Gauthier
by Sam C. Mac• Music• Pop Rocks

Beyonce — Renaissance

August 15, 2022
Amanda Shires, Take It Like a Man, ATO
Credit: Michael Schmelling
by Josh Hurst• Music• Rooted & Restless

Amanda Shires — Take It Like a Man

August 15, 2022
Ken Carson, X
Credit: CAA
by Paul Attard• Music• What Would Meek Do?

Ken Carson — X

August 15, 2022
Beach Bunny, Emotional Creature, Mom + Pop
Credit: Beach Bunny
by Andrew Bosma• Ledger Line• Music

Beach Bunny — Emotional Creature

August 15, 2022
Beyonce, Renaissance, Columbia
Credit: Larry Busacca
Album Roundup• by InRO Staff• Featured• Music

Album Roundup — July 2022 | Part 1: Beyonce, Amanda Shires, Ken Carson

August 15, 2022
Imperial Triumphant, Spirit of Ecstasy, Century Media
Credit: Kraussphoto
by Fred Barrett• Music• Obscure Object

Imperial Triumphant — Spirit of Ecstasy

August 15, 2022
Girl Picture - Strand Releasing - Alli Haapasalo
Credit: lkka Saastamoinen/Strand Releasing
by Zachary Goldkind• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Girl Picture — Alli Haapasalo

August 15, 2022
Casque d'Or - Jacques Becker - Criterion Collection
Credit: IMDb
by Patrick Preziosi• Featured• Film• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon

Casque d’or — Jacques Becker

August 15, 2022
Human Flowers of Flesh - Helena Wittmann - Locarno
Credit: Fünferfilm - Shellac
by InRO Staff• Featured• Festival Coverage• Film

Locarno Film Festival 2022 — Dispatch 1:Human Flowers of the Flesh, Where is This Street?, Piaffe

August 13, 2022
Summering - James Ponstoldt, Bleecker Street
Credit: Bleecker Street
by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Summering — James Ponsoldt

August 12, 2022
Inu-Oh — Masaaki Yuasa
Credit: GKIDS
by Paul Attard• Featured• Film• Spotlight

Inu-Oh — Masaaki Yuasa

August 12, 2022
Day Shift - Jamie Foxx - Netflix - Snoop Dogg - J.J. Perry
Credit: Andrew Cooper/Netflix
by Matt Lynch• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Day Shift — J.J. Perry

August 12, 2022
Mack & Rita - Katie Aselton - Diane Keaton - Gravitas Ventures
Credit: Gravitas Ventures
by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Mack & Rita — Katie Aselton

August 11, 2022
Credit: Grant Din/Courtesy of Sundance Institute
by Ryan Swen• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Free Chol Soo Lee — Julie Ha and Eugene Yi

August 11, 2022
Fall — Scott Mann — Lionsgate
Credit: Lionsgate
by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Genre Views

Fall — Scott Mann

August 10, 2022
Emily the Criminal — Aubrey Plaza — John Patton Ford — Roadside Attractions
Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Institute
by Luke Gorham• Featured• Film• Genre Views

Emily the Criminal — John Patton Ford

August 10, 2022
Credit: Socavón/Altamar Films
by Ryan Swen• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

El Gran Movimiento — Kiro Russo

August 9, 2022
Laal Singh Chadda - Paramount Pictures
Credit: YouTube/Paramount Pictures
by Paul Attard• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Laal Singh Chaddha — Advait Chandan

August 9, 2022
Credit: Fantasia Fest
by Sean Gilman• Featured• Film• Genre Views

The Roundup — Kang Yoon-sung

August 9, 2022
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
Credit: Disney Entertainment/Getty Images
by Christopher Bourne• Featured• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon• Music

Curtis Mayfield — Super Fly

August 8, 2022
Credit: Fantasia Fest
by InRO Staff• Featured• Festival Coverage• Film

Fantasia Film Festival 2022 — Dispatch 6:Please Baby Please, Seire, Skinamarink

August 6, 2022
Last House on the Left - Wes Craven - Criterion Channel
Credit: Criterion Channel
by Morris Yang• Featured• Film• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon

The Last House on the Left — Wes Craven

August 5, 2022
Easter Sunday - Jo Koy - Universal Pictures
Credit: Universal/Everett Collection
Blockbuster Beat• by Steven Warner• Featured• Film

Easter Sunday — Jay Chandrasekhar

August 5, 2022
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Netflix - Ben Schwartz
Credit: Netflix
by Ayeen Forootan• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie — Andy Suriano & Ant Ward

August 5, 2022
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Orphan: First Kill - Paramount Pictures - William Brent Bell - Paramount+

Orphan: First Kill — William Brent Bell

Spin Me Round — Jeff Baena

Girl Picture - Strand Releasing - Alli Haapasalo

Girl Picture — Alli Haapasalo

Human Flowers of Flesh - Helena Wittmann - Locarno

Locarno Film Festival 2022 — Dispatch 1:Human Flowers of the Flesh, Where is This Street?, Piaffe

Summering - James Ponstoldt, Bleecker Street

Summering — James Ponsoldt

Inu-Oh — Masaaki Yuasa

Inu-Oh — Masaaki Yuasa

Day Shift - Jamie Foxx - Netflix - Snoop Dogg - J.J. Perry

Day Shift — J.J. Perry

Mack & Rita - Katie Aselton - Diane Keaton - Gravitas Ventures

Mack & Rita — Katie Aselton

Free Chol Soo Lee — Julie Ha and Eugene Yi

Irma Vep — Olivier Assayas: A Dialogue on Episode 8

Beyonce, Renaissance, Columbia

Beyonce — Renaissance

Amanda Shires, Take It Like a Man, ATO

Amanda Shires — Take It Like a Man

Ken Carson, X

Ken Carson — X

Beach Bunny, Emotional Creature, Mom + Pop

Beach Bunny — Emotional Creature

Imperial Triumphant, Spirit of Ecstasy, Century Media

Imperial Triumphant — Spirit of Ecstasy

Drake — Honestly Nevermind — OVO

Drake — Honestly, Nevermind

MUNA — Dead Oceans — Saddest Records

MUNA — Muna

Post Malone — Twelve Carat Tootheache, Mercury

Post Malone — Twelve Carat Toothache

George Ezra, Gold Rush Kid, Columbia

George Ezra — Gold Rush Kid

KayCyy, Get Used To It, Columbia

KayCyy — Get Used To It

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Kicking the Canon

Casque d'Or - Jacques Becker - Criterion Collection

Casque d’or — Jacques Becker

August 15, 2022
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly

Curtis Mayfield — Super Fly

August 8, 2022
Last House on the Left - Wes Craven - Criterion Channel

The Last House on the Left — Wes Craven

August 5, 2022
Fat City — John Huston — Jeff Bridges

Fat City — John Huston

July 25, 2022
damnation — bela tarr

Damnation — Bela Tarr

July 22, 2022




Festival Coverage

Fantasia Fest 2022

New York Asian Film Festival 2022

BAMcinemaFest 2022




Feature Articles

Irma Vep — Olivier Assayas: A Dialogue on Episode 8

August 10, 2022
Cinema Rediscovered — Watershed — The Afterlight — Village Detective

Cinema Rediscovered 2022

July 28, 2022
Irma Vep — HBO Max — Olivier Assayas — Alicia Vikander

Irma Vep — Olivier Assayas: A Dialogue on Episodes 5–7

July 26, 2022
Still from Irma Vep limited series, directed by Olivier Assayas.

Irma Vep — Olivier Assayas: A Dialogue on Episodes 1–4

July 7, 2022
An Atypical Elegance: A Decade of Paul Thomas Anderson

An Atypical Elegance: A Decade of Paul Thomas Anderson

June 24, 2022

Recent Retrospectives

Clint Eastwood: Myth, History, Revisionism

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We're rounding up & talking about July albums, sta We're rounding up & talking about July albums, starting off with today's thoughts on excellent new albums from 
@beyonce, @amandapearlshires & 
@imperialtriumphant, plus the new #BeachBunny rec & #KenCarson's debut.
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#GirlPicture from Alli Haapasalo is out this week, and Zac does NOT recommend.  "Girl Picture is an embarrassment of riches for those seeking an exemplar of the cinematically inept, suggesting substance where only vapid fakery exists."
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Today we're honoring the 70th anniversary of Jacques Becker's Casque d'Or. @1xferokay breaks it down for #KickingtheCanon:  "If Becker’s project was the vicissitudes of inevitability, then Casque d’or’s sequencing is the sterling example."
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Doesn't look like too many are enjoying #DayShift Doesn't look like too many are enjoying #DayShift but we're about that life. @colonelmortimer with more:  "Despite being a relatively derivative concoction...Day Shift has enough personality and sturdy, silly violence to make it feel downright refreshing."
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Paul talked Masaaki Yuasa's latest, #InuOh, a couple weeks back during @FantasiaFest
. He says it's mostly skippable:  "[Inu-Oh] joins a list of titles that regularly trade in Yuasa’s sloppiest storytelling tendencies..."
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#Summering is a real howler, and not in an enjoyable way. @stevenwarner1980
 reports:  "If life is too short to let those halcyon days of youth slip by unappreciated, it’s definitely too short to waste your time on something as nothing as Summering."
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#movie #movies #moviereviews #moviecritics #film #films #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
Lots of great new reviews and thoughts up in the l Lots of great new reviews and thoughts up in the last few days. Go to inreviewonline.com and check them out!  —
#movie #movies #moviereviews #film #Films #filmreviews #moviecritics #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
#BulletTrainMovie is, well, to put it simply: bad. #BulletTrainMovie is, well, to put it simply: bad.  "...mostly you’ll just be waiting for the train to stop or crash." — @colonelmortimer
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#TheyThem is an LGBTQIA-facing riff on the slasher template. @stevenwarner1980 finds its gentle character work more compelling than its horror:  "[Displays] patience in delving into [its characters]...but lands as a lame duck when it comes to delivering scares."
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#TheChallenge should be excited to see CT in the latest remake of #TheMostDangerousGame, but there's little much else to be excited about when it comes to the film.
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#film #films #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #movie #movies #moviereviews #moviecritics #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
#PreyMovie is out Fri on @hulu. @colonelmortimer #PreyMovie is out Fri on 
@hulu. @colonelmortimer checked it out & found it mostly worthwhile:  "It might be faint praise to call this good enough movie the best Predator sequel in over 30 years, but it’s almost perfect late summer entertainment." #Predator
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#ILoveMyDad is out this week. @therealsundance caught it at SXSW earlier this year:  "Outsized gambits are exceedingly hit-or-miss, but what makes it work here is that all the gonzo comes from a place of love...a darkly hilarious and often poignant tribute."
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#movie #movies #moviereviews #moviecritics #film #filmreviews #films #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
#MemoryBox opens this weekend at #FilmForum. @morr #MemoryBox opens this weekend at #FilmForum. @morrisycy checked it out during #Berlinale 2021, but wasn't as impressed as others have been:  "In Memory Box’s case, its magical-sounding title conceals the roteness of its false catharsis."
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We've also got @stevenwarner1980 on #WhatJosiahSaw:  "What Josiah Saw is ultimately a conflicted film, one that finds its director doing his best to overcome deficiencies with technical prowess."
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#movie #movies #moviereviews #moviecritics #film #films #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephilecommunity
We've got a couple takes on June albums left over, We've got a couple takes on June albums left over, including the new @drake and @whereismuna; another batch of thoughts from #FantasiaFest, including heavy hitters from #DarioArgento, #QuentinDupieux, & #ImSangsoo; and @treshongdavis caught up with #MarcelTheShell & #ParadiseHighway.
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#movie #movies #moviereviews #moviecritics #film #films #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity #fantasia #fantasia22 #filmfestivals
More #FANTASIA2022 coverage today, wherein we talk More #FANTASIA2022 coverage today, wherein we talk a few anime films (the middling #InuOh, the excellent #TheGirlfromtheOtherSide from Yutaro Kubo & Satomi Maiya), DIY filmmaker extraordinaire Mickey Reece's latest, and more! @fantasiafestival
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#Resurrection is out Fri & Daniel isn't hearing any "elevated horror" attacks:  "There’s no free-form metaphor floating around the margins here. It is, instead, very bluntly about...real trauma...[and] builds to a shattering conclusion." 
@ifcfilms 
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Plus more! Go read it. inreviewonline.com
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#movie #movies #moviereviews #moviecritics #film #films #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
You've probably already heard, but #TheGrayMan is You've probably already heard, but #TheGrayMan is junk. @colonelmortimer needed more Shane Black in this Shane Black ripoff:  "The most generic piece of mail order crud imaginable given [its] pedigree...[Without] even a shred of novelty or ingenuity."
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@fantasiafestival is chugging right along & we're back with our first bit of new coverage. Today's dispatch tackles some heavy-hitters, incl. #TakashiMiike's Mole Song conclusion, Choi Jae-hoon's The Killer, Mitchell Stafiej's excellent The Diabetic & more!
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#movie #movies #moviereviews #moviecritics #film #films #filmreviews #filmcommunity #filmcritics #filmcriticism #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity

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