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The 25 best pulpy movies

Whether film noir or space adventure, there’s something in the pulp sensibility for everyone.
AN award-winning Bahamian documentary exploring the emotional toll of Hurricane Dorian and the COVID-19 pandemic will make its local cinema debut at Fusion Superplex this week. “D6 Project: We Are Not ...
Ryan Coogler’s historical horror film Sinners dominated the 2026 Dorian Film Awards, taking home seven prizes from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. The film was named Film of the ...
The Cannes Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Paper Tiger, the latest film from director James Gray. Gray was joined on the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Saturday, May 16, by the ...
James Gray’s sixth film at the Cannes Film Festival, Paper Tiger, drew a ten-minute standing ovation last night following its world premiere at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. The movie, starring Scarlett ...
Palme d’Or Winner Potential Oscar Contenders A Standout American Auteur Debates Over Films 15 Unforgettable Looks Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” is among the ...
Memphis native Vivian Gray is the production designer for the new Blumhouse horror movie, “Obsession.” Gray designed a key prop for the film, a sinister wooden stick known as a “One Wish Willow.” Gray ...
Director James Gray tried to call Scarlett Johansson on his cellphone so she could bask in the 7-minute standing ovation for “Paper Tiger” at the film’s Cannes premiere on Saturday night. But the star ...
James Gray’s mob drama Paper Tiger is work of classical Hollywood staging that does something genuinely novel with the genre. The director’s sixth Palme d’Or hopeful — a record for an American ...
James Gray knows how to mess with genre. His last film, 2022’s “Armageddon Time,” was a coming-of-age memoir, but a notably unsentimental entry is what is usually a sentimental genre. And his new one, ...
The director serves up another hardscrabble outer-borough Jewish family, but the get-rich scheme doesn't play out convincingly. “Paper Tiger” is set in the late ’80s, which means that it’s even more ...
Movie stars Miles Teller and Adam Driver were on hand for the Palais premiere. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter “To be very pretentious about it, the intention was to try to make a very ...