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The experience of watching "Joker: Folie a Deux" argues against its very existence.

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 2024-06-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Drama
Director: Annie Baker
Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas, Sophie Okonedo, Will Patton

"Janet Planet" is emotionally inert, with the straightforward style keeping viewers at arms-length from the characters.

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Adele Lim
Cast: Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu

A bunch of amusingly raunchy jokes interspersed with a treacly soap opera-level storyline about family and friendship.

Has its high points but is characterized by an exhaustive repetitiveness that diminishes what was so good and unique about the first two installments of the series.

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-04-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Erwin, Brent McCorkle
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie, Anna Grace Barlow, Kimberly Williams-Paisley

The narrative is numbingly agreeable, with likable characters working through a drama with no real teeth.

It’s a good thing the movie offers an overdose of nostalgia, because there’s precious little else to get excited about.

Run Time: 2:08
U.S. Release Date: 2021-07-30
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, Paul Giamatti, Veronica Falcon, Edgar Ramiez

The filmmakers show a keen understanding of what worked in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and pilfer shamelessly from the formula, coming up with 2021's equivalent of "Romancing the Stone."

Run Time: 2:06
U.S. Release Date: 2021-02-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Shaka King
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Algee Smith, Martin Sheen

Captures the state of civil rights during the late 1960s and provides color and shading to a character whom history associates with Black Hatred.

Run Time: 3:22
U.S. Release Date: 1983-03-23
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Chantal Akerman
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte

Being fascinating and unique, two qualities unquestionably in evidence here, don’t automatically deserve praise.

Run Time: 1:37
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Drama
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Leslie Daniels, Natalia Rai

Works best when viewed within the larger context of how moviemaking shifted during the 1950s and 1960s than as a stand-alone motion picture.