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My-Penguin-Friend-(2024)

My Penguin Friend (2024)

There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing family film–nothing snarky or self-referential, no on-the-nose needle drops–just a sweet, beautifully made movie that earns the emotion it’ll surely draw from its viewers. Director David Schurmann tells the true story of the unlikely bond between a penguin and a […]

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Consumed-(2024)

Consumed (2024)

There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise frustrating creature feature about a married couple who go camping and then fall apart. A rift has already formed between Beth (Courtney Halverson) and Jay (Mark Famiglietti) before they set out on a long hike, so tension only continues to grow once they’re

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The-Good-Half-(2024)

The Good Half (2024)

“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland (Nick Jonas) during one of his omnipresent bouts of millennial ennui. It’s the kind of innocuous statement that, when revealed in stark close-up, is meant to convey a broader thematic underpinning in Robert Schwartzman’s weepy indie dramedy “The Good Half.” You see,

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