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Gary M. Kramer is a writer and film critic based in Philadelphia. Follow him on Twitter.

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Rashida Jones and Bill Murray in "On the Rocks" (Apple TV+ / A24)

Bill Murray is back as a lovable rascal in Sofia Coppola’s poignantly charming “On the Rocks”

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Aswang (Cinematografica)

“Aswang” examines the horror of life under Duterte & the extra-judicial killings targeting the poor

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Tilda Swinton in "The Human Voice" (FilmNation)

Tilda Swinton mesmerizes as a woman possessed in Pedro Almodóvar striking take on “The Human Voice”

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"The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel" (Grant Street Productions)

Democracy, not consumption is “how we will amass power to challenge the corporate behemoth”

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"Underplayed" (Popp Rok)

“Female entrepreneurship is key”: “Underplayed” unpacks the massive gender inequity for EDM deejays

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Janelle Monae in "Antebellum" (Lionsgate)

“Antebellum,” Janelle Monae’s cross-dimensional thriller, was literally born from a nightmare

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Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin in "Concrete Cowboy" (Lee Daniels Entertainment)

Idris Elba drama “Concrete Cowboy” brings audience along for a crowd-pleasing ride

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"Enemies of the State" (Codebreaker Films)

“Enemies of the State” director on the twisty new doc with “too many secrets still in the story”

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"New Order" (Teorema Films)

Michel Franco’s dystopian drama “New Order” is an electrifying cattle prod to the nether regions

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Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures)

In Chloe Zhao’s wandering “Nomadland,” Frances McDormand journeys to an Oscar-worthy performance

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Buoyancy (KinoLorber)

“Hard to stomach”: “Buoyancy” director on the horrors of enslaved labor in the Thai fishing industry

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Jimmy Carter and Willie Nelson at Nelson's concert/fundraiser for Carter’s re-election campaign September 13, 1980 (Courtesy The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library)

“Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President”: A loving relationship to music that “cuts through politics”

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Jessie Buckley in "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" (Netflix)

Charlie Kaufman’s exasperating “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” could’ve been a masterpiece

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Critical Thinking (Vertical Entertainment)

With “Critical Thinking,” John Leguizamo directs a rousing “Stand and Deliver”-style chess story

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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in "Bill & Ted Face the Music" (Orion Picutres)

The latest “Bill & Ted” adventure is more bogus than excellent, despite some chuckles

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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in "Bill & Ted Face the Music" (Orion Picutres)

Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter: Bill & Ted “aren’t playing Van Halen riffs” anymore

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Leonelis Arango Salas in "Epicentro" (Kino Lorber/Kino Marquee)

“Havana is . . . the fantasy of Americans”: Filmmaker on capturing the “utopia” of Cuba in new doc

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Desert One (Greenwich Entertainment)

“Carter was so humane”: “Desert One” filmmaker on examining the Iran hostage crisis 40 years later

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"Ren & Stimpy" (Nickelodeon)

New “Ren & Stimpy” doc perpetuates the problematic myth of the cult cartoon’s bad-boy genius

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River City Drumbeat (Owsley Brown Presents)

“It makes your heart beat faster”: Documentary celebrates the artistic side of Louisville’s West End

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Stellan Skarsgard in "Out Stealing Horses" (Magnolia Pictures)

“We are all unreliable witnesses”: Stellan Skarsgård on memory & his new film “Out Stealing Horses”

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Brigitte Amiri and Dale Ho in "The Fight" (Magnolia Pictures)

“The everyday guy can fight and sometimes win”: ACLU doc goes inside four David & Goliath cases

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Shohreh Aghdashloo (Photo provided by Shohreh Aghdashloo)

Music helped treat her father’s dementia, and that’s why Shohreh Aghdashloo made “The Cuban”

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OC Ukeje and Ike Barry in "Shine Your Eyes" (Netflix)

Netflix’s existential “Shine Your Eyes” searches for a man who “inhabits the world of fiction”

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