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‘Hallmarked Man’: For the love of mystery, and for the love of love

J.K. Rowling (under the pen name Robert Galbraith) continues to push the boundary of how involved a mystery novel can be with “The Hallmarked Man”

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‘The Fly’ (1986) is a classic fairy tale … in reverse and inside out

“The Fly” (1986) is writer-director David Cronenberg’s most mainstream piece of body horror, but that’s a contradiction because body horror will never be a mainstream

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‘Poseidon Adventure’ (1972): When playing follow-the-leader, pick wisely

While “Jaws” (1975) is considered the first blockbuster because of the sheer amount of money it made, plenty of films before it had buzz, long

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‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ is a fantastic bore

It’s a year ending in 5, so that means it’s time for another “Fantastic Four” movie so Fox (and now Disney) doesn’t lose the license.

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Gunn’s ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 is no joke, despite a lighter tone from the DCEU days

James Gunn is improving the quality of DC’s storytelling from within the Warner Bros. machine, ironically by telling an epic story about former government agents

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‘E is for Evidence’ (1988) that a more evocative tale could’ve been told

In “E is for Evidence” (1988), there’s evidence that Sue Grafton underwrites key parts of the mystery. While this fifth Kinsey Millhone book has compelling

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‘Conjuring’ saga applies wallpaper as fast as it peels in ‘Last Rites’

The Smurl family home in “The Conjuring: Last Rites” includes peeling wallpaper in the stairwell, an accidental metaphor for the way the film uses top-shelf

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I’m not scared of clowns. Can I still enjoy ‘It: Chapter Two’ (2019)?

“It” – in all its incarnations – strikes me as Stephen King’s (and the adapters’) attempt to expand the themes of “Stand By Me” (the

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‘Collateral’ (2004) injects intimate moral philosophy into a crime thriller

Not merely an outlet for Katie Holmes to scout future exes, “Collateral” (2004) is an expert portrayal of strong and weak personalities interacting, and the

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Preston writes what he knows, and ‘The Lost Tomb’ (2023) shows how he knows it

In his novels (both solo and with Lincoln Child), Douglas Preston writes what he knows. In “The Lost Tomb and Other Real-Life Stories of Bones,

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