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Delightfully Prescient ‘TOY STORY 5’ Dazzles, Charms, and Breaks Your Heart
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Delightfully Prescient ‘TOY STORY 5’ Dazzles, Charms, and Breaks Your Heart

'Toy Story 5' is a funny, heartbreaking, and insightful meditation on childhood in the digital age, asking what gets lost when screens begin replacing imagination. The gang is all here but it's newly-minted Sheriff Jessie…

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FESTIVAL
Tribeca '26: 'SUMMER WAR' Is an Intriguing Descent Into Obsession

Tribeca '26: 'SUMMER WAR' Is an Intriguing Descent Into Obsession

There are movies that unfold according to a plan, each scene carefully advancing a story toward a predetermined destination. Then there are movies like Summer War, where every scene feels as though it might wander off in an entirely unexpected direction. Writer-director Alicia Scherson’s adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel The Third Reich is messy, strange,...

Matt Oakes · Jun 7, 2026
FESTIVAL
Tribeca '26: 'DEEPFAKE' Is a Cringey Brooklyn Satire of Faux-Influencer Culture

Tribeca '26: 'DEEPFAKE' Is a Cringey Brooklyn Satire of Faux-Influencer Culture

A bundle of sage burns inconspicuously in an apartment window. A plate is shattered. A woman weeps in the shower. Jane has just been dumped. These are the opening moments of Matt Eames’ Deepfake, a satire about influencer culture, loneliness, and the increasingly transactional nature of modern relationships that never manages to dig much deeper...

Matt Oakes · Jun 6, 2026
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Bob Odenkirk on Becoming an Unlikely Action Hero in His 60s

Bob Odenkirk on Becoming an Unlikely Action Hero in His 60s

Bob Odenkirk does not read as an action star. He knows this. You know this. And yet, here he is, three films deep into an unlikely second act as a guy who takes and delivers beatings on screen with the kind of bruised conviction that most traditional action leads can’t touch. With Normal, directed by...

Apr 14, 2026
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