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The Baltimorons
"Well, I guess that makes me the Ghost of Christmas Present. Cliff Cashen, still really really thrilled to be here, gang. Thank you."
Austin Noto-Moniz
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Rabbit Trap
Judging purely by scale, Rabbit Trap could have been made during the depths of the COVID pandemic. Set on an isolated Welsh hillside that gives way to a dense and disorienting forest pushes thoughts of the wider world out of your mind. The cast consists of just four people, one
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Lurker
"What's the difference between love and obsession? I can never tell them apart."
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The Long Walk
"Where else would you be given such an opportunity?! Nowhere else, that's the answer!"
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Honey Don't!
"We are not macaroni!"
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Relay
Between the complications inherent in releasing movies during the COVID pandemic, lending his voice to animated features, and the limited theatrical runs enjoyed by most streaming studio fare, Relay marks Riz Ahmed's return to the screen in a starring role. So it's quite bold that for
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The Toxic Avenger (2025)
"Side effects include fever, foolishness, and butt guts."
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Caught Stealing
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth."
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The Roses
Welcome to the year of the romcom! Much has been made of the genre’s disappearance from the theatrical experience. True, they still flood streaming services, with Netflix distributing the best of recent years in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. But with the exception of Anyone But You, few have
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Highest 2 Lowest
"All money ain't good money."
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Jimmy and Stiggs
After a couple of fake trailers for amusingly dumb horror flicks, it was a genuine surprise that the opening of the film was shot from Jimmy's perspective. We're along for the ride in real-time as Jimmy putters and mutters about his apartment, doing coke and smoking
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Strange Harvest
True crime has been around for hundreds of years, arising not long after the invention of the printing press. Whether it serves as a warning to the populace that a pleasant neighborhood is no guarantee of safety, or as pure entertainment designed to satiate our innate curiosity about the unfathomable