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A young Han Solo learns the art and artifice of being an outlaw in Solo: A Star Wars Story, the perfect popcorn movie to kick off the summer blockbuster season.

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Anger Begets Anger: 'Three Billboards' As Southern Gothic

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'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri' Captures the Conflicts Over Police Violence

It can't be a coincidence this film takes place in Missouri, the birthplace of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

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'True Detective' and the Death of Television Criticism

Something has gone wrong if critics consider True Detective the best that contemporary television has to offer.

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'Now You See Me' Is Super Slick

To be fair, Now You See Me is only nominally about super slick magic. It's really a super slick caper movie.

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Defendor

Defendor comes home after each adventure, brutalized and beaten down by the criminals he's faced, and spits out his own teeth.

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Natural Born Killers: The Director's Cut

Stone's pedigree secure, the Hollywood maverick turned on the system itself; tarring sensationalism, public bloodlust, and judicial entropy, seemingly with the same brush.

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Summer of Same: May 2009

May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

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The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

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Seven Pounds

Equally afflicted by an old-school weepies affect and new-agey self-righteousness, Seven Pounds is by turns clumsy and overbearing.

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Exquisite Agony

This holiday season, Mickey Rourke (in The Wrestler) and Will Smith (Seven Pounds) suffer for all us sinners.

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Battle in Seattle

Even as various people try to "do their jobs" in Battle in Seattle, they are repeatedly boxed in by lack of information and lack of power.

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Solo: A Star Wars Story inexplicably ruins an icon.

A young Han Solo learns the art and artifice of being an outlaw in Solo: A Star Wars Story, the perfect popcorn movie to kick off the summer blockbuster season.

Watching this film in a theater in Belfast, while my fellow moviegoers cringed at the violent United States, I recognized the Gothic South.

A master filmmaker searches for new ways to tell old stories.

It can't be a coincidence this film takes place in Missouri, the birthplace of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Something has gone wrong if critics consider True Detective the best that contemporary television has to offer.

To be fair, Now You See Me is only nominally about super slick magic. It's really a super slick caper movie.

Defendor comes home after each adventure, brutalized and beaten down by the criminals he's faced, and spits out his own teeth.

Stone's pedigree secure, the Hollywood maverick turned on the system itself; tarring sensationalism, public bloodlust, and judicial entropy, seemingly with the same brush.

Jennifer Aniston is stuck, again.

May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Equally afflicted by an old-school weepies affect and new-agey self-righteousness, Seven Pounds is by turns clumsy and overbearing.

This holiday season, Mickey Rourke (in The Wrestler) and Will Smith (Seven Pounds) suffer for all us sinners.

Even as various people try to "do their jobs" in Battle in Seattle, they are repeatedly boxed in by lack of information and lack of power.