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My Oni Girl is a charming, emotional fantasy where the details don’t entirely add up. The ending of Netflix’s anime movie in particular raises a lot of questions about what an oni actually is in this setting, and about the rules…

Everyone knows summer is the domain of the action blockbuster. It’s a time for gunfights, car chases, death-defying stunts, and nefarious crimes that have to be thwarted. And while all those things have largely fallen to stars like Tom…

Once you start talking about Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow, it’s hard to stop. Their eerie, tragic follow-up to the underground hit We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is endlessly layered and unpackable, from its complicated…

Moana 2! It’s happening! Moana is back, and so is Maui, but beyond that... the first couple of teaser trailers have given absolutely no plot information beyond the fact Moana will be sailing on the ocean. This time, with some more…

In 2013, NASA had its first class of potential astronauts made up of 50% female candidates, and when director Liz W. Garcia (Purple Hearts) read that fact she had a lot of thoughts. “I was surprised that it had taken so long, but also…

Since 1979, George Miller's Mad Max series has transformed from a schlocky B-rate post-apocalypse story to one of the most beloved action franchises of all time. Mad Max is set in Australia sometime after the world has been…

Making a Hollywood prequel is often seen as a studio grasping for profits or audience recognition, years after an initially successful project. There have been plenty of maligned examples over the years, like the three Star Wars prequel…

In 2018, when director Pablo Berger was thinking about his next movie, he happened to crack open one of his favorite graphic novels, a short, wordless story about a dog and a robot, best friends who are separated and drift apart. Berger…

They say it’s a strange summer for movies. Studios are putting all their chips on 2025 being the year that movie theaters come back, and are stacking the calendar accordingly. The big superhero movie houses are almost all on pause.…

It’s been nice to see the growing popularity of Indian cinema in the States. For many people — especially those not familiar with the work of the legendary Satyajit Ray — their entry place was Aamir Khan’s excellent 2001 cricket drama…