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The Furious

Words can’t begin to describe how epic, powerful, and absolutely bone-crushing the fights are.

Stop! That! Train!

This summer, a movie spoof arrives, riffing on the disaster-film genre, but with a variation never attempted before, or at least not on this scale: Make it gay, make it drag, make it unabashedly queer.

Disclosure Day

Another reminder that no one can make emotionally stimulating popcorn flicks like Steven Spielberg.

Power Ballad

This lean drama makes great use of the chemistry between Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas.

Backrooms

Because of its overwhelming visual and sensory labyrinth, Backrooms is a fortunate marriage of an attractive concept and compelling execution.

Tuner

Though Tuner doesn’t reinvent the wheel (or in this case, the piano), it makes the most of a very tight script with excellent performances, strong pacing, and a fun balance of genre tones.

Been Here Stay Here

Tangier Island, located in the Chesapeake Bay, has a population of about 400 people and is only two and a half miles long and roughly a mile wide. And it’s disappearing.

Amrum

Actor Jasper Billerbeck plays one of the most memorably multidimensional young wartime protagonists since The Tin Drum and Empire of the Sun.