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Two Thumbs Up (2023-2024)
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The latest critically acclaimed, eclectic, arthouse, and award winning movies, shows and documentaries reviewed and rated 3+ on rogerebert dot com. updated jun 1 2024

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Movie: The Truth vs. Alex Jones ( 2024 )
Centers on families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. They take Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist, to court for spreading lies about the event being a hoax.
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TV Show: We Were the Lucky Ones ( 2024 )
Based on Georgia Hunter's New York Times bestselling novel, the television adaptation of We Were the Lucky Ones is a limited series inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive and reunite. We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century's darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive. The series is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.
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Movie: Steve! (Martin) a Documentary in 2 Pieces ( 2024 )
Follows the life and career of actor Steve Martin.
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TV Show: Ripley ( 2024 )
Ripley follows Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf, who is living a comfortable, trust-funded ex-pat life in Italy, to return home. Tom's acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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Movie: Madu ( 2024 )
Follows Anthony Madu, the Nigerian boy who became a viral sensation after a video showed him dancing ballet barefoot on a rainy street outside Lagos.
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Movie: Wicked Little Letters ( 2024 )
When people in Littlehampton--including conservative local Edith--begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.
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Movie: On the Adamant ( 2023 )
Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
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Movie: La Chimera ( 2024 )
A group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
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Movie: The Listener ( 2024 )
Follows a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, etc.
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Movie: The Beast ( 2024 )
In the near future artificial intelligence is in control of everyone's lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat.
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Movie: The First Omen ( 2024 )
A young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, but encounters a darkness that causes her to question her faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
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Movie: Yannick ( 2024 )
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
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Movie: Scoop ( 2024 )
How the BBC obtained the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Movie: The People's Joker ( 2023 )
An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.
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Movie: Girls State ( 2024 )
Follows 500 adolescent girls from all across Missouri as they come together for a week-long immersion in a sophisticated democratic laboratory, where they organize a Supreme Court to consider the most contentious issues of the day.
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Movie: The Old Oak ( 2023 )
The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.
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TV Show: The Sympathizer ( 2024 )
An espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.A blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping spy novel and a powerful story of love and friendship.
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TV Show: Franklin ( 2024 )
On a secret mission to France, Benjamin Franklin plays a sophisticated game of intrigue and seduction—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.
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Movie: Food, Inc. 2 ( 2023 )
Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo team up with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to examine the modern food industry's efficiency and vulnerabilities.
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Movie: The Long Game ( 2024 )
In 1955, five young Mexican-American caddies, out of the love for the game, were determined to learn how to play, so they created their own golf course in the middle of the South Texas desert.
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Movie: Desaparecer Por Completo ( 2022 )
After visiting a crime scene, an ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness.
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Movie: Irena's Vow ( 2024 )
Through the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable story of Irena Gut, and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy, as she risked her life to save a generation of Jews from the atrocities of the Holocaust.
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TV Show: Under the Bridge ( 2024 )
Limited series based on Rebecca Godfrey's book about the 1997 true story of a fourteen-year-old who went to join friends at a party and never returned home14-year-old Reena Virk joined friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Godfrey and a local police officer, the series takes us into the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder — revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.
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Movie: Hard Miles ( 2024 )
A prison social worker assembles a cycling team of teenage convicts and takes them on a transformative 1,000-mile ride. Inspired by the life of Greg Townsend and the Ridgeview Academy cycling team.
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Movie: We Grown Now ( 2023 )
Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago.
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Movie: Nowhere Special ( 2021 )
When John, a thirty-five-year-old window cleaner, is given only a few months to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for his three-year-old son, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.
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Movie: School Town
Lao Wang is a middle-aged man. He works in a security department of a college which is located at a big school town. He lives a calm life. Xiao Wang is a freshman. He has a conflict with his roommate and is taken to the security department by his counselor. In a room of this foggy winter day, Lao Wang and Xiao Li are tasting the life of their own, and something unexpected is just about to happen... The school town is waiting quietly for the next day as it always be.
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Movie: Omen ( 2023 )
After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.
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Movie: Terrestrial Verses ( 2023 )
Ordinary people navigate societal constraints in a series of vignettes.
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Movie: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed ( 2024 )
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
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Movie: Infested ( 2024 )
Residents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders.
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Movie: Challengers ( 2024 )
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, turned her husband into a champion. But to overcome a losing streak, he needs to face his ex-best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
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Movie: Jack Reacher ( 2012 )
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.
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Movie: Blood for Dust ( 2024 )
Cliff, a traveling salesman drowning under the weight of providing for his family and the myth of the American dream, finds himself on a dangerous path after a chance encounter with Ricky, a colleague from a dark past.
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Movie: Evil Does Not Exist ( 2024 )
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house, offering residents a comfortable escape to nature.
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Movie: I Saw the TV Glow ( 2024 )
Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously cancelled.
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Movie: Turtles All the Way Down ( 2024 )
A teenager with OCD tries to solve a mystery surrounding a fugitive billionaire.
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Movie: The Idea of You ( 2024 )
Solène, a 40-year-old single mom, begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet.
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Movie: Slow ( 2023 )
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
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Movie: The Last Stop in Yuma County ( 2024 )
While stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop, a traveling salesman is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.
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Movie: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ( 2024 )
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
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TV Show: Bodkin ( 2024 )
Bodkin is a darkly comedic thriller about a motley crew of podcasters who set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three strangers in an idyllic, coastal Irish town. But once they start pulling at threads, they discover a story much bigger and weirder than they could have ever imagined. As our heroes try to discern fact from fiction - about the case, about their colleagues, and, most painfully, themselves - the series challenges our perception of truth and exposes the stories we tell ourselves to justify our beliefs or validate our fears.
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Movie: Aisha ( 2024 )
While caught for years in Ireland's immigration system Aisha Osagie develops a close friendship with former prisoner Conor Healy. This friendship soon looks to be short lived as Aisha's future in Ireland comes under threat.
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Movie: Gasoline Rainbow ( 2024 )
Follows 5 teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rearview, decide to embark on one last adventure: to make it to a place they've never been -the Pacific coast, 500 miles away. Their plan, in full: "F**k it."
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Movie: Power ( 2024 )
Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.
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Movie: Nothing Can't Be Undone by a HotPot ( 2024 )
Four strangers become entangled in a murder case after stumbling upon a hidden cache and a corpse in a theater's backstage area.
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Movie: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ( 2024 )
The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max.
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Movie: In Our Day ( 2023 )
A woman in 40s living at friends home answers briefly, and a man in 70s living alone end up giving longer answers, had visitor for lunch in front of their guests, coincidentally they both added hot pepper paste to their ramyun.
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TV Show: STAX: Soulsville U.S.A. ( 2024 )
STAX: Soulsville U.S.A. tells the story of an underdog record label comprised of Black and white collaborators who ushered in the groundbreaking, industry-altering soul music of Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Staple Singers, Sam & Dave and many others that defined a generation. Driven by instinct and defying the notion that Black artists needed to be "made marketable," the Memphis-based label went from ultimate outsider to one of the most influential producers of Black music – finding its place inside the broader mainstream record industry. Stax became more than a record label; it transformed into a beacon of Black freedom. It is a quintessentially American story of an audacious group of individuals who dared to make their own music on their own terms creating an institution that has continued to help define our culture long after the label itself has gone.
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Movie: Hit Man ( 2024 )
A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services.
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Movie: Solo ( 2023 )
Follows Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.
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Movie: Kidnapped ( 2023 )
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
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Movie: No Ordinary Campaign ( 2022 )
One couple's fight to reclaim their future from a brutal disease has snowballed into a movement with resounding ramifications for the ALS community and millions of patients seeking a voice in our broken healthcare system.
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TV Show: Clipped ( 2024 )
Clipped takes you behind the scenes of a notorious NBA owner's racist remarks, captured on a tape heard around the world. Based on the hit ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, this limited series charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less functional marriage, and the precipitating tape's impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.
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Movie: Backspot ( 2023 )
Riley is given the chance to cheer with the all-star squad, Thunderhawks. With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her crippling anxiety, her relationship with her girlfriend, and her desperate need for approval from her new coach.
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Movie: The Young Wife ( 2023 )
It follows a young woman grappling with the meaning of love and commitment, follow her over her non wedding day.
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Movie: Flipside ( 2023 )
A comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis.
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Movie: Jim Henson: Idea Man ( 2024 )
This Documentary will feature interviews of fans of Jim Hensons work, interspersed with footage from Jim Henson's works, including Wilkins and Wontkins Commercials that were previously lost.
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Movie: In a Violent Nature ( 2024 )
When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it.
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Movie: Robot Dreams ( 2023 )
The adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s.
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Movie: What You Wish For ( 2023 )
A down-on-his-luck chef with gambling problems flees to a Latin American villa, where he assumes the identity of another man.
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Movie: Young Woman and the Sea ( 2024 )
The story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.
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Movie: The Dead Don't Hurt ( 2024 )
Two pioneers fight for their lives and their love on the American frontier during the Civil War.
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Movie: Longing ( 2024 )
A business mogul runs into his old small town girlfriend while she is visiting the big city only to find out that they had a child together that he was unaware of. Based on an award-winning foreign language film.
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Movie: Maestra ( 2023 )
Follows five international women who participate in 'La Maestra', the only competition in the world for female orchestra conductors. Personal stories of survival in this one-of-a-kind event created to break another glass ceiling for women.
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Movie: Banel & Adama ( 2023 )
A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.
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Movie: I Used to Be Funny ( 2023 )
Sam, a stand-up comedian struggling with PTSD, weighs whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.