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Two women sleeping together, embracing each other, with solemn expressions on their faces in a dimly lit scene.
Review

The Exorcist: Believer – a trashy, overstuffed requel

by Anton Bitel

David Gor­don Green returns in his role of clas­sic hor­ror reboot guy to exhume and retool William Friedkin’s The Exor­cist for new audi­ences. The results are not pret­ty at all.

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Review

Halloween Ends

by David Jenkins

The biggest sur­prise of this low-key hor­ror tril­o­gy cap­per is how much bet­ter it is that its crum­my, cash-in predecessors.

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Review

Halloween Kills

by Adam Woodward

Michael Myers runs amok once more in direc­tor David Gor­don Green’s strange­ly lack­lus­tre slash­er sequel.

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Review

Halloween

by Hannah Strong

David Gor­don Green presents a John Car­pen­ter-approved sequel to the slash­er clas­sic from 1978.

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Review

Stronger

by Charles Bramesco

David Gor­don Green teams up with Jake Gyl­len­haal to bring us a biopic that’s hard­er, bet­ter, faster…

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Festivals

Our Brand Is Crisis – first look review

by David Jenkins

San­dra Bul­lock tears up the polit­i­cal scene in La Paz in David Gor­don Green’s feath­er-light polit­i­cal comedy.

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Man with long hair, glasses, and beard holding a white cat.
Review

Manglehorn

by David Jenkins

Al Paci­no plays a lovelorn lock­smith in David Gor­don Green’s exquis­ite­ly low-key drama.

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Two men sitting on the bonnet of a blue vintage car, parked under a large tree with autumnal foliage.
Review

Joe

by Nick Newman

Nico­las Cage is gift­ed one of his best roles in years as an ex-alco­holic who take a young drifter under his wing.

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