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Luna (Storm Reid) and Auguste (Ivy Wolk) are freshman college roommates. What started as a joyous friendship has quickly gone sideways. How sideways? Auguste is currently throwing every last one of Luna's belongings out of their dorm window. Clothes. Trash. Even the air fryer. When that air fryer comes crashing down and takes out a food delivery robot, Dr. Schilling (Sarah Sherman) happens to be walking by. She puts an end to things immediately and calls both girls into her o

Alright, let's talk about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie — and look, I'm going to be upfront with you right off the top: I am a Mario guy. Always have been. So take everything I'm about to say with that in mind. Because here's the thing — if you go into this film as a fan of the franchise, you're probably going to have a good time. And I did. I walked out giving it a solid 7 out of 10. But if you go in looking for a movie — like, an actual story with something meaningful to

Let me tell you about Rob. Rob ( Will Madden) is the kind of guy who plans things. He books restaurants in advance. He reads the reviews. He wanted to propose in Paris, which tells you everything you need to know about Rob: he is a good man, a careful man, a man who believes that love deserves a proper setting. He has a ring. He has a speech, probably. He had a whole vision of how the story was supposed to go. What Rob didn't have was a girlfriend who was anywhere near the s

There are films you see and films you carry. La La Land is the second kind, one of those rare works that does not stay on the screen when the credits roll but follows you out into the parking lot and rides home with you in silence. We first saw it years ago, in a theater, and we have thought about its ending more times than we can count. Returning to it now, we wanted to know whether it holds. Whether the feeling was real or whether we had invented it in the years since, pol

Departing from his most recent entries of a spy thriller and a ghost story, director Steven Soderbergh brings to life the world of two very different artists in his new film, The Christophers. From threatening to retire from directing to popping out three films in just over a year is impressive for any director, but doing three completely different genres proves why Soderbergh is one of today’s modern classic directors. A black comedy, The Christophers does a fantastic job of

There is a particular kind of friendship that does not end so much as calcify, turning slowly into something hard and permanent inside you, a stone where warmth used to be. We have all had one. A person who knew us before we knew ourselves, who watched us become something we are not sure we are proud of, and who we left behind without meaning to, leaving us unable to forget. It is also about pop music, ghosts, the price of fame, what art costs the people who make it and the p

Exit 8 is a Japanese movie adaption of the video game The Exit 8 . A man, played by Kazunari Ninomiya and credited as The Lost Man, finds himself trapped in an endlessly looping subway tunnel, trying to find exit 8. He soon learns the rules: if there is an anomaly in the current loop, he must turn back and go the other way. If there isn't an anomaly, he must keep going the way he is going. If he goes the correct way, the next exit goes up in number one by one until he reache

There's a version of Pizza Movie that probably shouldn't work. Honestly, most versions of it shouldn't. And yet, somehow, this one does. Directed by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, Pizza Movie follows two college roommates, Jack (Gaten Matarazzo) and Montgomery (Sean Giambrone), who make what feels like a very manageable decision. Take an experimental drug. Order a pizza. Stay in. Do nothing. That plan does not hold. What should be a lazy night quickly fractures into somet

The new rom-com You, Me & Tuscany from director Kat Coiro kicks off with Anna (Halle Bailey), a young woman struggling financially as she meets Matteo (Lorenzo de Moor), a traveling real estate agent as he's visiting New York where she currently lives. When Matteo finds out Anna was once planning to visit Tuscany, the city he happens to be from, he encourages her to go there and tells her about the villa he left behind. When Anna arrives in Tuscany and realizes she has nowher