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More murder and mayhem from Mickey Keating
Before there existed The Usual Suspects -- director Bryan Singer's scintillating thriller that's been blasting audiences nationwide to attention over the last few months with its intoxicating blend of visual flair, internal wit, narrative complexity, and ...
Michael Mann's film is a human-scale biopic of the gangster folk hero John Dillinger.
As inspired an idea as it was casting Joe Pesci as the great freelance photographer Weegee, whose brutally realistic tabloid photos of New York City nightlife defined an era, the rest of this film isn't nearly ...
A lesbian on the rebound falls for both a guy and a gal in this rom-com with roots in old Hollywood screwball comedies.
In their first feature, former Austinites the Duplass brothers have made a near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy.
This bilingual romantic comedy hopes to follow in the footsteps of the U.S. box-office sensation Instructions Not Included.
Tarantino's second feature film lights up the screen with the same blazing torch that it carries for the idea of the movies.
Pulse (2001, 118 min., NR) ![](/Images/star.gif)
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The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.
Pulse (2006, 90 min., PG-13) ![](/Images/starHalf.gif)
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Pulse, the American remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 horror film Kairo, is the McDonald's Unhappy Meal to the original's elegantly obtuse sashimi o' sorrow.
Pumpkin (2002, 121 min., R) ![](/Images/star.gif)
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Schizophrenia is never pleasant to observe, but Pumpkin, a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality, probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment. It's an odd and difficult pairing, like ...
Sandler plays a socially inept, outwardly calm warehouse worker who harbors a maelstrom of rage.
Marvel Comics' Frank Castle again comes to the screen as a one-man vengeance machine in this stylishly violent and gory opus.
Strictly from the so-bad-it's-good school of entertainment.
Kathleen Hanna, the ultra-charismatic co-founder of the third-wave feminist riot grrrl movement and full-on DIY icon is the subject of this documentary.
Punks (2000, 104 min., R) ![](/Images/star.gif)
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Can a movie have too many drag scenes? Surprisingly, yes -- even if they involve yards of bubble wrap, black vinyl nuns' habits that break away to reveal hot pants and thigh boots beneath the wimple, ...
Country music superstar George Strait makes his acting debut in an extended music video held together by a formulaic plot that harkens back to the Golden Age of Hollywood: Strait portrays -- what else -- a ...
Pure Luck manages to deliver only four decent laughs in its entire 105-minute time. As with many comedies in the last couple of years, you can almost see the great jokes that Those In Charge opted ...
Back after last year's Purge struck such a unlikely chord, this story about an annual eruption of violence returns in stronger form.
The third entry in this nasty series adopts a political bent
The Purge (2013, 85 min., R) ![](/Images/star.gif)
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Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey star in this suspenseful horror film that's set in the near future and poses dark possibilities and even darker lighting.
Purple Noon (1960, 119 min., PG-13) ![](/Images/star.gif)
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Clément's 1960 French thriller is an excruciating exercise in restraint; Purple Noon positively seethes with barely controlled passions, murder, intrigue, debauch. It takes a masterwork like this to shine the harsh fluorescent light of mediocrity on ...
Will Smith plays a self-made success who trains as a stockbroker even though he is homeless and raising a young son on the streets of San Francisco in this movie based on the true-life story of Chris Gardner.
Push (2020, 92 min., NR) ![](/Images/star.gif)
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Documentary exposes how faceless landlords turn homes into assets
Push (2009, 111 min., PG-13) ![](/Images/starHalf.gif)
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This sci-fi actioner about warring clairvoyants is generically incomprehensible with cyberpunk overtones.
Operating under levels of stress that would turn ordinary men to jelly, the air traffic controllers at New York's Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) must safely guide 7,000 flights a day to safe harbor at one ...
As infectious as the latest viral cat video, this animated film has the added slam-dunk of Antonio Banderas purring the voice of the title character.
Banderas is back in the boots in this superior Shrek spin-off
Puzzle (2018, 103 min., R) ![](/Images/star.gif)
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The pretty pieces don't all fit in this jigsaw-solving drama
A team of U.S. archeologists becomes lost and hunted in the labyrinthine catacombs of a buried pyramid.