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Washington. 1994. The fictional town of Viktorville. Here, two co-workers, Status (Wayne Kyle Spitzer) and AK (Andy Kumpon), are about to have a frightening series of shifts while working as lowly security guards for the mysterious Viktor corporation.

“A million girls would kill for that job.” 

No work of literature is so sacrosanct that it cannot be reimagined or reinterpreted by later artists. That doesn’t mean, however, that taking a politically charged allegorical novel about the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin and turning it into a toothless, kid-friendly animated movie with …

Somehow we’ve reached a cultural moment in which Netflix original movies are being remade as theatrical releases, but that new height of cinematic recycling doesn’t necessarily make director Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body a bad movie. A mostly beat-for-beat remake of the 2021 Norwegian …

The best scene in I Swear, a biopic of sorts about Scottish Tourette syndrome advocate John Davidson, comes when we see him sitting down with a young person who is looking for someone to talk to. It’s a moment where neither has to explain themselves or be fearful the other could lash out at …

“Your humanity is also resistance,” a Muslim religious leader tells grieving Palestinian parents Salim (Saleh Bakri) and Hanan (Cherien Dabis) as they agonize over whether to donate the organs of their deceased teenage son Noor (Muhammad Abed Elrahman), who was gunned down by Israeli troops.…

The title character’s financial challenges are only a small part of what’s making her life difficult in the alternately frustrating and endearing Apple TV dramedy Margo’s Got Money Troubles, but the way that she chooses to solve those money troubles is the most interesting thing about the sh…