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Review: Black Bag

Steven Soderbergh continues to be one of the most eclectic directors working today, and Black Bag is an exemplar of that. A marital and relationship dramedy disguised as a sleek spy thriller, Black Bag...

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Top 10 Mansion Murder Comedies

It is one of cinemas most recognizable subgenres, yet to our knowledge it does not (yet) have a name. We define the “Mansion Murder Comedy” to be one of the class of films which employs the tropes of the gothic mystery thriller for comedic effect.

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Review: Mickey 17

Bong Joon-ho is back! After six years without a new film, the Oscar-winning Korean director returns to the big screen with Mickey 17. While his reputation had been slowly growing thanks to his sci-fi...

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Review: The Monkey

While the post-It Stephen King adaptation extravaganza has finally slowed down, filmmakers still intermittently seek to bring King’s stories to the big screen. Osgood Perkins has deigned to bring his own vision to one...

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Review: Heart Eyes

Heart Eyes is the third film from Josh Ruben, a noted member of the online comedy group CollegeHumor. As one of many filmmakers emerging from the Internet era, Ruben’s work has all been horror-comedies,...

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Review: The Brutalist

The Brutalist has emerged as this year’s historical, self-important, grandiose Oscar nominee, the closest equivalent to 2023’s Oppenheimer. The cinema world hasn’t centered around The Brutalist‘s greatness near as universally as last year’s Best...

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Vote for the 14th Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards

For the fourteenth year, members of the Flickcharters Facebook group have voted in several categories to create The Flickcharters’ Choice Awards. Our previous winners have been Drive, Django Unchained, Gravity, Guardians of the Galaxy, Mad Max: Fury Road, La La Land, Three...