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The ‘Longlegs’ Hype Machine Was Almost Onto Something. Almost.
The much-anticipated Neon thriller reinforces that there’s a fine line between raising expectations and setting the bar impossibly high
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‘MaXXXine’ Is Punch-Drunk on Pastiche
Ti West’s stalk-and-slash set pieces hit all the classic marks but rarely transcend them
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The 10 Best Movies of the Year … So Far
Sean and Amanda are joined by a deep bench of Ringer colleagues to share their favorite movies of the year
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The Most Famous Biker Movies
With the release of Jeff Nichols’s ‘The Bikeriders,’ Ringer contributor Adam Nayman looks back at some of the most famous and enduring biker movies
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The Nine Movie Roles—and TV Cameo—That Defined Donald Sutherland
From his spellbinding ‘JFK’ scene to the trauma-horror of ‘Don’t Look Now’ to his ‘Simpsons’ cameo, these are some of the standouts from Sutherland, who died this week at 88
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The Allure of ‘The Bikeriders’ Can’t Outrace All the Clichés
The Jeff Nichols drama starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy starts with much promise but too often allows its individuality to be subsumed into homage
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You Can Definitely Tell M. Night Shyamalan’s Daughter Made ‘The Watchers’
Whether the pileup of all-in-the-family auteurist tropes is derivative or daring is very much in the eye of the beholder
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The Deceptive Dark Side of ‘Hit Man’ and Richard Linklater
The slick outer packaging of ‘Hit Man’ belies a grimly profound subtext about American life. It’s a juxtaposition hidden within many of the director’s works.
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‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Is All Muscle Memory
George Miller’s highly anticipated follow-up to ‘Fury Road’ is less a victory of originality than of pieces sliding (or slamming, in this case) into their predetermined places
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An Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag, and ‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ With Jane Schoenbrun
Sean and Amanda answer your mailbag questions before Jane Schoenbrun joins to discuss the making of the ‘I Saw the TV Glow’