Our look back at 2020 in movies continues with Abby’s picks for the 10 best movies of the year – and the 10 best directorial debuts.
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At the conclusion of a grim year – for movies, and in general – a brief appreciation of the people and moments that brought us some fleeting pleasure.
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What a year it’s been. I have no jokes, no memes, just an impending sense of tentative relief that this festival […]
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Sister of the Groom,’ ‘Modern Persuasion,’ ‘Boys vs. Girls,’ and more:
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How two of the year’s best documentaries find filmmakers coping with essential questions of family, life, and death.
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The annual surge of holiday movies from Hallmark, Lifetime, and Netflix have a new trope. So where did it come from, and why does it work?
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This week’s roundup of second-tier VOD releases includes new titles from Drew Barrymore, Paul Hogan, and Cher.
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With “Crash” out on Blu-ray this week from Criterion, we look back at the various attempts to translate JG Ballard’s work to the screen.
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When ‘Mona Lisa Smile’ arrived in theaters in 2003, many critics wrote it off as a lesser ‘Dead Poets Society’ – which is wildly reductive to both the film and its themes.
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The 1990 comedy, released 30 years ago this week, is a holiday perennial and family favorite. So what are we to make of the intensity of its slapstick violence?
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The Micachu and the Shapes frontwoman has become one of the most innovative and interesting composers in film. A look at what makes her work so special:
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Chick Fight,’ ‘Asylum: Twisted Horror and Fantasy Tales,’ ‘My Summer as a Goth,’ and more new off-the-grid VOD releases:
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