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Review

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

by David Jenkins

It’s an improve­ment on the exe­crable Crys­tal Skull, but James Mangold’s exhuma­tion of the Spiel­berg adven­ture ser­i­al is both tame and unnecessary.

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2
In Retrospect
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Review

Another Round

by Ella Kemp

Mads Mikkelsen and direc­tor Thomas Vin­ter­berg con­tin­ue their midlife cri­sis odyssey in rous­ing fashion.

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4
In Retrospect
Two men holding cats in a garden with sheep grazing in the background.
Review

Men and Chicken

by Charlie Theobald

Two social­ly mal­ad­just­ed broth­ers search for their father, and hap­pen upon a lair of deprav­i­ty. It’s funny.

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3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Hunt

by David Jenkins

Thomas Vinterberg’s study of a man wrong­ful­ly accused of child molesta­tion is extreme­ly pre­scient, if manip­u­la­tive in the extreme.

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1
In Retrospect
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Review

Valhalla Rising

by Nick Hasted

Val­hal­la Rising’s prob­lem is that it’s easy to think of it as just a pre­ten­tious sword-and-sor­cery film.

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In Retrospect