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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For its 25th anniversary, we look back at Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ follow-up ‘Jackie Brown’ – its breathless anticipation, initial disappointment, and eventual (and deserved) reappraisal.
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Francois Truffaut’s debut feature is one of the seminal texts of the French New Wave, and a thornier-than-usual examination of a childhood informed by the cinema.
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Musical polymath Jon Brion’s solo album ‘Meaninglessness’ has been re-released, making this a good time to look back at his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson.
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The Brenaissance is here, but before ‘The Whale,’ Brendan Fraser went toe-to-toe with no less than Michael Caine in this razor-sharp adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel.
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With three separate ‘Pinocchio’ adaptations hitting screens this year, it’s time for a 20th anniversary postmortem of Roberto Benigni’s notorious version.
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The story goes that producer Walter Wanger came to Frank Borzage with a title, two pages of a script and a […]
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