It’s tempting to pretend that Gene Hackman’s career ended with The Royal Tenenbaums. Three-plus decades after his breakout performance in Bonnie […]
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Director Ari Aster’s goal with Hereditary wasn’t to make a horror film – it’s a family drama, first and foremost, portraying […]
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Jonathan Lynn’s comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000), released 20 years ago this week, is a crime caper that draws much […]
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“Before, I was alone. Now I’m not.” – Honeymoon In The Tenant (1976), Roman Polanski’s drunk Trelkovsky asks when, after cutting […]
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Mrs. Bruce (Lin Shaye) comes down the stairs carefully holding a full glass of red wine. She rifles through her vinyl […]
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The Time: The mid-’90sThe Place: Downtown New York CityThe Setting: A nondescript warehouse/film studioThe Scene: “Ellen and Damian Kiss” When it […]
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Based on my own research. Films included only if they played theatrically. Corrections and additions are welcome (@ me). For comparison’s […]
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The more I do this, the more it seems wrong to call these the “best” movies when I only saw a […]
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1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There were countless articles in 2019 marking the […]
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With over one hundred years separating World War I and the present day, cinema has consistently had to find new ways […]
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We had some of our regular contributors suggest movies from this year that flew under the radar or aren’t getting enough […]
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One need only turn on CNN, check Twitter, or look to this year’s Golden Globes nominations to see that the fragility […]
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