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Review: Blood On Her Name

Feb 20th, 2020 Peg Aloi

Blood on Her Name opens with a scene of intense immediacy. A young woman stands above a man’s corpse lying in a pool of blood on the concrete floor of an auto body shop. She looks both wired and weary, then gradually realizes she needs to do something. Did she kill him? It’s not clear - but...

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Review: Emma.

Feb 19th, 2020Kristy Puchko

For over two hundred years, the world has been enchanted with Emma, Jane Austen's tale of a "handsome, clever, (and) rich" maiden whose hobby of matchmaking reveals her flaws. Austen brought to life an array of colorful characters across a tidy...

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Review: The Call of the Wild

Feb 19th, 2020Abby Olcese

The Call of the Wild will be the first encounter for some viewers (including this one) with the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios - formerly 20th Century Fox - and its awkwardly truncated logo. It feels like an attempt to claim nothing has really...

Review: <i>Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band</i>

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Review: Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

Feb 18th, 2020Jason Bailey

One of the running refrains of Daniel Roher’s musical bio-doc Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band is that the group was more than the sum of its parts – each member was a gifted musician and force of personality in their own...

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Review: Swift

Feb 18th, 2020Josh Bell

There’s some sort of irony in Willem Dafoe providing the voice of a cartoon seagull just a few months after he so memorably appeared opposite a much more menacing seagull in The Lighthouse. Imagining Dafoe’s gruff bird flying out of the...

<i>The Whole Nine Yards</i>: A Comedy of Masculinity

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The Whole Nine Yards: A Comedy of Masculinity

Feb 17th, 2020Stephen Silver

Jonathan Lynn's comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000), released 20 years ago this week, is a crime caper that draws much of its comedic energy from the clash of two different types of masculinity. We're used to this from the buddy cop genre and others...

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Who Jean Seberg Really Was

Feb 17th, 2020Lydia Hirsch

Seberg (out Friday in limited release) begins with a reenactment of a scene from Jean Seberg’s first movie, St. Joan (1957), in which Jean was accidentally injured by the flames while filming. Jean would often say later in life that she wished...

<i>Honeymoon</i> is the Ultimate Anti-Valentine Film

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Honeymoon is the Ultimate Anti-Valentine Film

Feb 14th, 2020Anya Stanley

"Before, I was alone. Now I'm not." - Honeymoon In The Tenant (1976), Roman Polanski's drunk Trelkovsky asks when, after cutting off so many limbs and appendages, he ceases to be himself: "If you cut off my head... would I say, 'Me and my head'...

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Review: The Photograph

Feb 13th, 2020Abby Olcese

The Photograph is a movie that feels needlessly unsure of the story it wants to tell. Stella Meghie's romance is, at times, a drama about the emotional legacies we inherit from our parents, and discovering the complex truths behind the people who...

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Review: Downhill

Feb 13th, 2020Craig J. Clark

From their screenplay for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants to their joint directorial debut, 2013’s The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have specialized in fractious family units whose members have to come to terms with one another in the...