Nearly a century ago, this Marion Davies silent comedy anticipated showbiz send-ups from ‘The Player’ to ‘Babylon.’
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In 2010, Boston Globe film critic Janice Page described Diane Lane as “the closest thing we have today to Grace Kelly, […]
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This loose and engaging Eugene O’Neill adaptation from John Ford (in the middle of one of cinema’s great hot streaks) was the playwright’s own favorite film take on his work.
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The stories of Alexandre Dumas make for reliably enjoyable cinema, and this 2002 adaptation is a lazy afternoon’s delight.
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When Rob Marshall’s adaptation of the 1975 Broadway show was released 20 years ago, it helped pave the way for a new generation of big-budget movie musicals.
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With Noah Baumbach’s long-awaited adaptation of “White Noise” out now, we look back on the handful of underseen films from the mind of Don DeLillo.
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As our yuletide movie week comes to a close, we recommend (well, at least for its first hour) Ingmar Bergman’s familial epic, now streaming on HBO Max and the Criterion Channel.
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Despite little fanfare, ‘Silent Night’ is a sharp (if melancholy) holiday film, capturing a Christmas party spent on the brink of humanity’s destruction.
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Twelve years after its premiere, Jalmari Helander’s feature debut remains one of the most pleasant surprises in contemporary horror comedy.
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Did a low-budget sci-fi noir inadvertently start the boom of Christmas action movies in the 1980s?
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A look back at Abel Ferrara’s gritty and prophetic Christmas-time crime thriller – a holiday fable as only he could tell it.
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Wintry dreams of rubber-suited heroes and kinkily catsuit-clad vigilantes danced in Tim Burton’s head when he crafted the sequel to his 1989 hit.
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