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Featured films for
Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 6:04 am
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The Babadook
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A single mother and her troubled boy find a creepy children's book. Slowly enveloping dread.
Rating: 8
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2014
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A Ghost Story
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Bedsheet-covered meditation on the passage of time and death's inevitability. A profoundly sad haunted house.
Rating: 10
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2017
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Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
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Cooper parlays her viral Trump lip-synching into an SNL-style variety special about 2020. Trippy finale.
Rating: 6
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2020
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Searching for Sugar Man
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The incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest 1970s rock icon who never was. Heartwarming.
Rating: 10
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2012
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
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A reporter in Iraq learns about a secret, psychic U.S. Army unit. It's pretty amusing.
Rating: 7
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2009
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Black Panther
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The advanced African kingdom of Wakanda, powered by vibranium, is in transition. Socially conscious Marvel.
Rating: 8
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2018
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The Double
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Cinematic adaptation of the Dostoevsky tale, full of loneliness and paranoia. Charmingly absurd, bureaucratic dystopia.
Rating: 9
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2014
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Zero Dark Thirty
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Riveting story of the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden. Finale balances catharsis with despair.
Rating: 9
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2012
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