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Top-five movies: Oakland

Top-10 movies: Jennifer Lawrence

Mailbag: The best films from 1992-2020

Tom Hanks' Greyhound is a thrilling World War II popcorn flick lacking character depth

12 options to replace Charlize Theron as Furiosa in the next Mad Max movie

Making a Mario Kart movie

7500 is a claustrophobic hijacking thriller that cleverly builds and sustains tension

Cloverfield is just as terrifying 12 years later

Lucy in the Sky is far better than its reputation

Sea Fever is a perfect horror story for the COVID-19 pandemic

Midsommar's masterful meditation on grief

Guest Post: The geography of Blue Velvet

The victory of Dunkirk

What The Last Jedi gets right and wrong about Star Wars

The 12 best scenes from Good Will Hunting, ranked

15 unofficial movie trilogies

Solo is good (and Solo 2 would be too)

Destroyer burns slowly but brilliantly

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Leonardo DiCaprio's — not Brad Pitt's — masterpiece

The wasted potential of I Am Legend

The Way Back, plus 11 movies to stream at home during self isolation

The seduction of Ex Machina

The staying power of Arrival

Rogue One is the map Star Wars is looking for

Casting the Knives Out sequel

Birds of Prey is a superhero movie masterpiece

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