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Dave’s ‘The Night We Lost Him’ blends romance, mystery

In the 19th century, authors snuck mystery elements into their stories and an exciting and popular new genre gradually emerged. In “The Night We Lost

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‘The Rental’ (2020) plays up creepiness of being a stranger in a strange home

With each new societal innovation, horror movies must follow. Such has been the case this decade with “vacation rental horror.” With the rise of Airbnb

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Smartly structured ‘Challengers’ breaks at love

“Challengers” gets a lot of mileage out of what is essentially a “Gossip Girl” premise: Two male tennis players – besties who have won the

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‘The Holdovers’ (2023) merely a placeholder for Payne

Alexander Payne would seem to be a good match for Christmas, as his films explore relatable emotions but ease the pain with laughs right when

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‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ Season 1 (1955-56) brings the macabre into living rooms

Alfred Hitchcock’s macabre sense of humor had become a brand by the 1950s, and he smartly spun that into a TV series, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”

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‘I Saw the TV Glow’ a mesmeric metaphysical journey

“I Saw the TV Glow” is one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever liked. This neon-lit, wrongly categorized “horror” movie from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun taps

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Detective back by popular demand in ‘Return of Sherlock Holmes’ (1905)

For today’s readers, Sherlock Holmes didn’t stay dead for long. “Killed off” in “The Final Problem,” he re-emerges in the next-published short story, “The Adventure

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‘It’s a Wonderful Knife’ (2023) lacks any spirit at all

Bad Christmas horror movies have become as ubiquitous as bad Christmas rom-coms … OK, maybe not quite that ubiquitous. But the genre is beginning to

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‘The Immortalists’ (2018) examines life through lens of death

Chloe Benjamin’s “The Immortalists” (2018) has a spicy premise – four young siblings in 1960s New York City learn the dates of their deaths from

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‘Night of the Hunter’ (1955) is influential … but is it good?

Charles Laughton was a one-of-a-kind, larger-than-life actor – for better or worse. And his one film as a director, “The Night of the Hunter” (1955),

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