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Dive deeper into the latest film releases with in-depth critical reviews from the Screendollars team.

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The Social Reckoning

Aaron Sorkin’s lively, riveting celebration of shoe-leather journalism pays homage to a blistering Wall Street Journal series about Facebook that ultimately changed… well, nothing, actually. read full review

Digger

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s contribution to “billionaires are destroying the world” cinema is an exercise in graceless maximalism, but Tom Cruise gets an “A” for effort.

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Forgotten Island

This animated comedy about two teen BFFs at a crossroads throws an excess of stuff at the screen, but future cult films are made of exactly that.

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Heart of the Beast

In David Ayer’s gripping tale of survival, both the man and the dog are war veterans grappling with PTSD and struggling to make their way back to civilization.

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Resident Evil

Combining laughter and terror poses a high degree of difficulty, but in this video-game adaptation, Zach Cregger once again proves to be a maestro of that balance.

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Musk

Director Alex Gibney's marathon documentary portrait of controversial billionaire businessman Elon Musk is rich in gossipy detail but short on surprises.

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Practical Magic 2

The scraps of alchemy that made the first movie a cable staple strain visibly in their attempts to make magic anew.

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Onslaught

The kind of stupid B-movie that studios always bury on Labor Day weekend, which proves that A24 isn’t all that different from its Hollywood counterparts.

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The Dog Stars

It’s the end of the world as we’ve been shown it, and it feels benign.

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Insidious: Out of the Further

Even as it delivers the umpteenth spin on “generational trauma is the real horror,” this sixth entry in the spooky series upholds its core of humanity while offering jolts and frights along the way.

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Coyote vs. Acme

This nearly-shelved Looney Tunes feature keeps the visual and verbal gags rapid-fire while also hitting its marks as a character-based legal thriller. With giant wooden mallets.

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The End of Oak Street

The many references to Spielberg in David Robert Mitchell’s latest serve only as a reminder that Spielberg would more delicately handle the disparate tones of this dysfunctional-family-versus-dinosaurs saga.

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