Leigh Monson
Leigh Monson has been a professional film critic and writer for six years, with bylines at Birth.Movies.Death., SlashFilm and Polygon. Attorney by day, cinephile by night and delicious snack by mid-afternoon, Leigh loves queer cinema and deconstructing genre tropes. If you like insights into recent films and love stupid puns, you can follow them on Twitter.
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Whether this meal is suited to your palate is something only you can decide, but it’s hard to argue that it isn’t a well-crafted dish.

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“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me& this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”

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'Luca' aggressively pushes its blatantly queer themes into subtextual depths.

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There just isn’t enough here to recommend 'Infinite' as more than background noise for a lazy afternoon.

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For all the effort on display from an expanded budget, there just isn’t enough indication of what that effort is ultimately for.

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It’s hard to watch 'Dream Horse' and not wonder if we’ve run out of interesting ways to tell an underdog sports narrative.

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Guy Ritchie’s trademark boyish braggadocio seems to have finally caught up with the realities of aging out of being a kid with something to prove.

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'Limbo' is still a satisfying diversion in spite of its limitations.

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'Shadow and Bone' is trying to show way too much in too little time, leaving its best intentions emotionally stunted and inert.

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Empathetic inclusion in our broadest forms of entertainment gives hope that the tide can turn against hate.

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Neil Burger's spacefaring meditation on human nature is good! But there's a caveat.

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Paramount+ celebrates First Contact Day in style with some exciting 'Lower Decks' news.

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'The Courier' is an entertaining film for how it pulls together a compelling tale of camaraderie from the auspices of a spy thriller.

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'Cherry's disparate inspirations never congeal into a satisfying whole.

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'Cosmic Sin' doesn’t have a worthwhile story to tell, but even if it did, it just doesn’t have the spectacle to back it up.

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'Chaos Walking' makes for a pleasant surprise in the wake of years of cynicism about its chances of success.

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The best parts have been held hostage by a confused amalgam of mediocrity and brand management.

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'Keep An Eye Out' is a curiosity that requires little time investment and has the potential to create new Quentin Dupieux fans.

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'Dreamcatcher' is a solid attempt to introduce a new sound to the world of horror, but the track ends up coming out as overproduced noise.

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'The Father' handily demonstrates that, should any one of us lose ourselves to dementia, we can become the time-ravaged shells of our former personalities

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If you could distill the brand and reputation of A24 down to a singular phrase, it would be “accessible arthouse.” These are our favorites.

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'My Zoe' is such a confused mess of pretension and anticlimax that it’s hard to recommend as anything but a showcase of wasted potential.

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'The Violent Heart' is more theoretically interesting than romantic or thrilling.
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