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Super Troopers 3 gives Broken Lizard’s highway patrolmen a problem even Farva cannot bluff his way through. Farva is preparing to marry Thorny’s sister, turning a strained family gathering into an extravagant Indian wedding. Thorny wants the relationship stopped, while the troopers become tangled in another drug-smuggling case. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, the comedy reunites…
Solo Mio makes a clever bargain with its audience. Matt Taylor’s romantic catastrophe is invented, but the Italy surrounding him is very real. The churches, cafe tables, public gardens and Tuscan countryside were not recreated on a Los Angeles soundstage. Kevin James and the Kinnane brothers took the production to Rome, then allowed the city…
One Night Only takes the familiar “two strangers, one impossible night” rom-com setup and gives it a mischievous dystopian rule. In Will Gluck’s movie, premarital sex is illegal except during a single annual window, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monica Barbaro plays hopeful romantic Allie, while Callum Turner is Owen, a recently dumped man…
“Soulm8te” places an intimate crisis inside a world of immaculate technology. David’s home is calm enough to pass for a showroom, ULTIMA Robotix sells connection in the language of product design, and Sara moves through every room as though she was engineered to belong there. The surprise is that this sleek, American-looking nightmare was built…
Hanna Bergholm’s “Nightborn” takes a familiar dream and slowly turns it feral. Saga, a Finnish woman, returns with her British husband Jon to the isolated house where she grew up, hoping the move will give them enough space to start a family. After she gives birth, however, Saga becomes convinced that something is wrong with…
Some Hallmark romances use Europe as a postcard. Toast to Italy makes the journey part of the courtship. Jenny, an American doctor with Italian roots, travels overseas before her sister’s wedding to recover the final bottle of her family’s “Love Wine,” an heirloom associated with good fortune for newlyweds. The mission becomes a race when…
The Becky films have never been interested in giving their heroine a quiet recovery. In The Last Temptation of Becky, the franchise sends Lulu Wilson’s teenage avenger beyond the cabins and small-town extremists of the first two movies. Becky is now a CIA field agent living in New York, and her latest assignment takes her…
Todd Field’s Tár makes the world of classical music look less like a sanctuary than a sealed chamber where every polished surface reflects power back at its owner. Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a celebrated conductor preparing to record Mahler’s Fifth Symphony while professional allegations and private compromises begin closing in around her. Berlin’s stern…
Love in Slow Motion knows the oldest romantic-comedy trick in the book: the person you overlook becomes impossible to ignore the moment someone else claims them. Released in Arabic as Ahebak Min Zaman, the film follows Haya, a chronically single woman who has always regarded Jawad as her dependable best friend. When he announces his…
Hasta el fin del mundo begins where most love stories would ordinarily conclude: with two people who have already lost each other. Manuel and Esmeralda meet aboard a train in Spain in 1975, only for an accident to throw them into an intense romance. Their time together is cut short by the violence and political…
Ancestral Beasts begins with a retreat that goes badly wrong. Elyse, a Red River Métis woman whose work and family life are unravelling, leaves the city for her aunt’s isolated home, hoping distance will bring some peace. Instead, she discovers a presence beneath the house, one that grows more threatening as her conflict with her…
Elize: Shadows of a Woman is not built as a mystery about who killed Marcos Matsunaga. The outcome is already known. Instead, director Felipe Vellas follows the marriage that came before it, tracing Elize’s move from a difficult upbringing into the protected world of a wealthy food-industry heir. What initially resembles a modern fairy tale…
