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2025 releases

Superboys of Malegaon movie review: making movies with his friends

Fri, Mar 07, 2025
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Gentle, charming dramedy about pals in middle-of-nowhere India making amateur movies. The giddy glee in this winsome portrait of geeky passion and enduring friendship is all-around infectious.

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When I’m Ready movie review: it’s the end of the world, and you’d barely know it

Thu, Feb 27, 2025
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Pretty young people are sad about the end of everything, but there’s no urgency and little emotional authenticity to any of it. We’ve seen this before, pulled off with far more affecting feeling.

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Paddington in Peru movie review: bad things happen when you leave the city

Thu, Feb 13, 2025
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Colorful but flattened and flimsy, which really grates next to how abundantly, uniquely original the first two movies are. Suffers greatly from the lack of their deft whimsy. It’s, well, bearly there.

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The Trouble with Jessica movie review: mortgaged souls

Fri, Apr 12, 2024
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The pleasures of this black comedy about London real estate and the hypocrisies of posh professionals lie in the terrific cast, especially Shirley Henderson, embodying entertainingly horrible people.

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