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Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 6:26 pm
Is The Rivals of Amziah King based on a novel? The screenplay is credited to "James Montague", a name that belongs to nobody
The Rivals of Amziah King feels like a book. A big, verbose, sprawling American novel with digressions about bee colonies and potluck etiquette, the kind you'd find dog-eared in a lake house.
Crush of the day
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 3:18 pm
Warner buried Coyote vs. Acme for a tax break — it just crossed $82 million in theaters
In November 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery looked at a finished, test-audience-approved Looney Tunes movie and decided it was worth more dead than alive — roughly $30 million more, in tax write-off form.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 3:17 pm
The Souffleur ending explained: what Lucius finally accepts after the hotel is sold out from under him
There is a specific genre of Willem Dafoe performance I would watch on a loop forever: Dafoe as a man clinging with both hands to something the universe has already decided to take from him.
Julia Talakh
September 15, 2026 2:00 pm
'Long Way North' & 4 Other Best Adventure Animated Movies, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes
Get ready for a journey from which you won't want to return.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 1:41 pm
Is Hanging by a Wire a true story? Where the footage inside the cable car actually came from
Every once in a while a documentary comes along that plays like a disaster thriller some studio exec would reject as "too much." Hanging by a Wire is that documentary.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 12:53 pm
Tickets went on sale at noon for Artificial, the OpenAI movie that doesn't start with Sam Altman
Everyone has filed it as the Sam Altman movie: Andrew Garfield, the hoodie, the five November days that nearly ended OpenAI. Then the festival premiering it published a synopsis, and the film turns out to begin twenty years earlier, in a Toronto lab, with a different man entirely.
Julia Talakh
September 15, 2026 11:00 am
'Practical Magic 2' May Have 92% on RT, but It Still Can't Recreate the Original's Spell
This movie couldn't justify its existence or stand as a work capable of rivaling the original.
Tatiana Santos
September 14, 2026 5:08 pm
Hayden Panettiere's screen work runs 32 years, from a 1994 soap to Sleepwalker — and two of her biggest roles were only her voice
America has been typing her name into search all day, and mostly one query behind it: what was she in. The answer runs from a soap opera in 1994 to a thriller released this January, and it takes in a cheerleader who could not be killed, a country star, and two roles that were only ever her voice.
Tatiana Santos
September 14, 2026 2:06 pm
A 9/10 review couldn't save Andrew Garfield's new movie from the emptiest theaters of his career
On paper, this should have worked. Andrew Garfield, a man who has suffered beautifully on camera for two decades, leading the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 for Paul Greengrass, the guy who made shaky-cam a love language. R-rated. Swords. Righteous class fury. September counter-programming.
Julia Talakh
September 14, 2026 12:00 pm
'Doomsday' Is Coming: Everything You Need to Know About the Upcoming 'Avengers' Movie
One thing is certain: Doomsday will be one of Marvel's most ambitious projects ever made.