Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist is a Los Angeles-based film critic and entertainment journalist with more than 20 years’ experience for dozens of print and online outlets, including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and Fangoria. An obsessive soundtrack collector, sneaker aficionado and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Todd currently lives in Silverlake, California with his amazing wife Julie, two cats Beatrix and Biscuit, and several thousand books, vinyl records and Blu-rays.
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Harry (Alan Tudyk) discovers the mood-altering effects of marijuana, and works with Max (Judah Prehn) to find the final piece of a device that may destroy Earth.

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In 'Yes Day,' hijinks ensue when a pair of uptight parents let their three kids make up the rules for a full day of activities.

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In 'Coming 2 America,' Eddie Murphy's Prince Akeem returns to America to find his sole male heir and prepare him for inheriting Zamunda's throne.

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In the new 'Resident Alien,' Harry (Alan Tudyk) gets closer than ever to finishing his mission, even as government agents threaten to apprehend him before he carries it out.

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In 'Boogie,' an Asian-American teenager has to fight his parents' dueling plans for him — and his own ego — to achieve dreams of basketball stardom.

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In 'Land,' Robin Wright plays a woman who moves to a cabin in the mountains in order to escape the pain of an unimaginable loss.

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The arrival of the real Harry's wife Isabelle causes new complications for this extraterrestrial's smalltown life.

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The 'John Hughes 5-Movie Collection' assembles films from the writer-director's Paramount catalog for a fun, eclectic set.

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In 'Crisis,' three people's lives are impacted by the opioid epidemic — in boardrooms, the streets, and the suburbs.

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In 'Birds of a Feather,' Harry reluctantly agrees to have dinner with Mayor Hawthorne, giving Hawthorne's son Max an opportunity to snoop around his cabin.

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In 'Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar,' two jobless midwesterners (Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig) take a vacation in Florida to rekindle their appetite for life.

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In 'Secrets,' Harry tries to prevent the local authorities from recovering the body of his human alter ego before he can dispose of it.

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In 'The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,' two teenagers discover they're stuck together in a time loop forcing them to relive the same day over and over.

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In 'Homesick,' Harry Vanderspiegle has his first day on the job as town physician, while continuing his campaign against Max (Judah Prehn), the only human who knows what he really is.

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In 'Bliss,' a dissatisfied man (Owen Wilson) encounters a mysterious woman (Salma Hayek) who claims that they're living in a computer simulation.

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In 'Falling,' Viggo Mortensen plays a gay man struggling to help his bigoted father (Lance Henriksen) as he begins to succumb to dementia.

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In 'Resident Alien,' Alan Tudyk plays an extraterrestrial who disguises himself to live among humans in a small town after his ship crashes on Earth.

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In 'Resident Alien,' Alan Tudyk plays an extraterrestrial pretending to be a doctor in a remote Colorado town after his ships crashes on Earth.

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In 'The Little Things,' a disgraced cop (Washington) and an ambitious detective (Malek) races to find a serial killer before he strikes again.

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In 'No Man's Land,' a promising young athlete ventures into Mexico to make amends after accidentally killing a young immigrant on the Texas border.

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In 'One Night in Miami,' Aldis Hodge plays football star Jim Brown, who in 1964 was coming to terms with his future both as an actor and a leader within the black community.

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In 'Locked Down,' a husband and wife put aside their pandemic estrangement to mount a heist to librate themselves from their collective restlessness.

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'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,' the FXX show 'Dave' and 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' offered profound insights about the state of the world in 2020.
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