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(05/04/26 6:15am)
Through its two-hour run time, “I Swear” maintains a remarkable tonal balance that elevates it from an entertaining film to a truly great one. It approaches Tourette syndrome with searing intimacy, never shying away from the awful consequences that those who live with it endure, and yet it also recognizes the humor inherent in its manifestations. The film masterfully presents its subject’s tics?— shouting “half-price heroin!” in front of police officers, “I’m a pedo!” during a job interview or “fuck the Queen!” during an audience with Elizabeth II herself — as simultaneously horrifying and outrageously funny. The movie’s command of its emotional register also allows it to be unexpectedly poignant as it tells an extremely personal true story that’s both heartbreaking and inspiring.
(04/27/26 6:05am)
The majority of director Antoine Fuqua’s biopic of Michael Jackson, “Michael,” is built from a small set of scenes repeated and slightly reworked to fill out the runtime. Jackson endures abuse or manipulation from his father. Jackson has a conversation in which someone tells him how special or talented he is. Jackson exhibits childlike innocence and/or wonder. Jackson comforts sick children. Jackson has an epiphany that leads to his next great hit. Jackson performs that hit. After the first 20 minutes or so, this cycle essentially becomes the rest of the film. The structure begins to feel almost musical in its looping, rhythmic repetition, cycling through familiar beats with only minor variation. Is it a passable diversion? Sure. Does it justify telling this story as a narrative feature film? Not even a little bit.
(04/20/26 6:05am)
A title like “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” invites multiple questions. For one, who is Lee Cronin? Why is his name attached to the film? How, if at all, is this installment related to “The Mummy” starring Tom Cruise, “The Mummy” starring Brendan Fraser or any of the other multitudinous bandage-wrapped, Egyptian-themed entries which bear the name?
(04/17/26 6:00am)
“XO, Kitty” season three picks up right where the show left off: smack in the middle of a prime young adult cocktail of romance, comedy and drama. But while its predecessors walked the line between the three, the newest installation in the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” Netflix spinoff series takes a sharp turn into trope-y dramedy — a choice that destabilizes the show’s tonal balance and ultimately strips it of its charm.
(04/13/26 6:05am)
“The Drama” is the kind of movie that both really does and really doesn’t need to be reviewed. Its impact hinges less on what you know and more on what you don’t, which makes writing about it without spoiling anything feel like a careful balancing act. Much of what makes it work depends on going in blind. What is important for moviegoers to know, though, is that it’s a tense, deeply uncomfortable experience — one that is the complete opposite of its happily-ever-after marketing.
(04/10/26 6:00am)
A Barbie doll with her fingers crossed behind her back. A small truck with a flat tire. These are some of the toy ideas of Alejandro (Julio Torres), a young man who aspires to become the world’s most famous toy designer. To achieve his dream, he must overcome a big obstacle: his precarious immigration status. Born in El Salvador, Alejandro needs visa sponsorship to continue living in New York City, but few companies are willing to hire a foreign-born worker. “Problemista” follows his effort to navigate a complicated immigration system while pursuing his lifelong dream.
(04/06/26 6:10am)
Cloud rap has always been a genre defined by its resistance to definition. Emerging in the late 2000s through trailblazing artists like Main Attrakionz and Lil B, cloud rap introduced a sound that felt hazy and psychedelic, often shaped more by mood than by design. Though frequently tied to the online music platform SoundCloud and the artists who rose through it — such as Yung Lean and Bladee — the “cloud” has never referred to the platform itself. Instead, it is the atmosphere that lingers in the music’s euphoria and detachment: essentially, the perfect high.
(04/06/26 6:00am)
“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” knows exactly what it is. Directed once again by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and produced by Illumination and Nintendo, the sequel had high expectations to meet. Its predecessor, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released in 2023, remains the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time.
(04/03/26 6:00am)
In one of the first scenes of the documentary “Assembly,” multidisciplinary artist and co-director Rashaad Newsome prepares to deliver his father’s eulogy. He does not hide his anxiety. Newsome, who is a Black queer person from Louisiana, says he has “never felt truly protected in this country.” With a desire to create spaces of safety and belonging, Newsome decides to transform the Park Avenue Armory, a former military facility in New York City, into a futuristic ballroom house where LGBTQ+ people can thrive.
(04/03/26 6:05am)
“Project Hail Mary” is practically miraculous in how deftly it balances intergalactic stakes and an intimate, character-focused emotional core. Directors Phil Lord ’97 and Chris Miller ’97, best known for their comedies and animated films like “21 Jump Street” and “The Lego Movie,” turn out to be the perfect fit for a blockbuster sci-fi story that treats wonder, comedy and sentiment with equal conviction.
(03/06/26 7:00am)
A24’s newest release, “How to Make a Killing,” directed by John Patton Ford, starts at the end. Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) is set to be executed in four hours, and glibly recounts his tale of woe on a priest (Adrian Lukis) through the bars of his cell. This opening scene establishes the film’s structure — Becket’s diegetic voiceover chronicles his criminal descent as he chases family fortune by murdering estranged relatives.
(03/02/26 7:00am)
“Pulp fiction” takes on an entirely new meaning in Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice,” a dark comedy about the job market. The bleak film follows Man-su — played by Lee Byung-hun of “Squid Game” fame — a family man who has worked at the pulp manufacturer Solar Paper for 25 years. When an American firm acquires his company, his bosses state they have “no other choice” but to downsize and unceremoniously let him go. After an emasculating, hopeless year of unemployment, Man-su decides he has “no other choice” but to literally eliminate his competition: he must kill the manager of the rival company Moon Paper, and all other applicants.
(03/02/26 7:10am)
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci’s line opens “Ghost in the Machine,” a Sundance documentary directed by independent filmmaker Valerie Veatch that uses its 110-minute runtime to ask viewers to reconsider what exactly feels “new” about artificial intelligence. The film firmly positions AI as the continuation of a conveniently forgotten intellectual and ideological history rather than as an abrupt technological innovation.
(02/20/26 7:00am)
As its generic title might suggest, Bart Layton’s “Crime 101” often plays like a remix of familiar tropes from crime genre classics. Thankfully, its strong direction and all-star cast make it a strong, well-made entry in the tradition, even if it doesn’t break any new ground and ends with a slightly undercooked finale.
(02/13/26 6:06am)
Friday Night Rock kicked off the winter term with a standout show on Friday, Jan. 23, bringing Racing Mount Pleasant to Sarner Underground for what I consider the best FNR performance I’ve seen here at Dartmouth.
(02/13/26 6:06am)
In “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” the sky may not be falling, but the ceiling is. The dramedy-meets-psychological-thriller centers on Linda (Rose Byrne), a therapist whose unnamed young daughter is struggling with an unidentified eating disorder. Her life is a series of unrelenting battles. Her husband Charles (Christian Slater) is a cruise ship captain who calls home only to berate her; her therapist (Conan O’Brien) is hostile and remarkably unhelpful and her own clients’ struggles are increasingly difficult for her to treat.
(02/02/26 7:09am)
Now that the Academy has released its ironclad grip on the Oscars contenders on Jan. 22, it is time to discuss Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value.” The staggering nine nominations — unprecedented for a Norwegian film — acknowledge the remarkable script and direction, stunning performances and tender yet gripping story. In short, “Sentimental Value” may be a perfect movie.
(01/30/26 8:00am)
“28 Years Later” is a strange, experimental take on the zombie genre and one of 2025’s best films. It served as the third installment in the horror franchise that began with 2002’s “28 Days Later” and introduced a new cast of characters for a planned trilogy. Last year’s entry ended with an outrageous sequence in which young protagonist Spike (Alfie Williams) was rescued by a gang of acrobatic zombie-killing ninjas dressed to resemble Jimmy Savile, a beloved UK media personality who was eventually outed as one of the country’s most notorious pedophiles.
(01/23/26 8:05am)
Introspective and anticlimactic, the Bruce Springsteen biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” is perhaps most accessible to viewers who are already fans of “the Boss.” This is not a traditional biopic — so viewers expecting a narration of the arc of Springsteen’s life will be disappointed. However, those interested in the craft of his songwriting and a glimpse into his emotions will be rewarded.
(01/23/26 7:10am)
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