Guillermo del Toro’s remake of the 1940’s film noir is appropriately creepy. It’s also weirdly cold, which, sadly, neutralizes the whole damn thing.
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December 14, 2021The Movie Minute
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- All About Nina.
- All the Money in the World.
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- And Just Like That
- Annette
- Anora
- Ant-Man and The Wasp.
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
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- Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
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- Dark Phoenix.
- David Byrne’s American Utopia
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- Dead to Me.
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- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
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- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
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- Hacks: Season 2
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- Oh, David! A Schitt’s Creek appreciation.
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- Ozark, Season 4: The Final Episodes
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- Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
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- The Loudest Voice: Review of Showtime’s seven-part miniseries about the late Fox News exec.
- The Matrix Resurrections
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
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