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American Star

By Alex Saveliev | January 2024

NOW IN THEATERS! The assassin with a heart of gold. Talk about the oldest cliché in the book. Yet by stripping down…

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NOW IN THEATERS! The assassin with a heart of gold. Talk about the oldest cliché in the book. Yet by stripping down their narrative to bare essentials,...

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In the 1990s, Southwestern thrillers were all the rage. From John Dahl’s Red Rock West and Álex de la Iglesia’s Perdita Durango to David Dobkin’s...

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In Marta D'Ocon's short thriller, The War Within, a young woman is forced to decide between which devil to serve. Matilde (Sabrina Hartmann) is the...

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BLOOD IN THE SNOW FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! As its name would suggest, director Adam Kirkey's Greed & Gore goes all in on the schlocky, silly,...

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Based on the poster for Acceleration, one would be forgiven for presuming the film is akin to the street racing thrillers that were inescapable after The...

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Remember Max Payne? It's the frenetic action videogame franchise that inevitably thrust Mr. Payne inside a nondescript warehouse in a banana republic...

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With Concrete Utopia, director Eom Tae-hwa has found himself a victim of ambition. The film has many narrative threads, all interweaving, all highly...

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Taking a page from the mid-budget indie action movies of the '90s, James Couche's thriller Lost Phoenix transports the genre of the drug-fueled era of the...

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Calling all Boppers. We got some futuristic gangland fun going on right outside of Paris in The Gravity (La gravite). Cedric Ido directs the sci-fi...

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The "silent" part of Silent Night is literal. The film features little-to-no dialogue (maybe two lines) for the hour-forty run-time. It's the latest...

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