The John Wick movies have a hotel, The Continental, that’s exclusively for assassins, where a code of conduct (e.g., no “working” on […]
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Remember how Danny Ocean needed 10 friends (and then 11, and then 12) to pull off his heists? In Ocean’s Eight, […]
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I didn’t grow up with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (or Sesame Street, for that matter). We didn’t have cable yet when I was […]
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Four movies deep and 20 degrees down, my brother and I were the last ones left at the Aut-O-Rama Twin. The […]
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Would you like to watch Toni Collette have a nervous breakdown for two hours? Hereditary is many things — a haunting story […]
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Ian McEwan’s novel On Chesil Beach and the movie based on it (which he also wrote) tell a story set in 1962 […]
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Remember the Robert Redford movie All Is Lost, where he was stranded at sea? Adrift, with teen-romance veterans Shailene Woodley (The […]
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If the absence of Johnny Knoxville’s Jackass has left a concussion-shaped hole in your life, it may be partially filled by Action […]
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Upgrade is an offbeat futuristic techno-thriller in the tradition of B-movies about scientists tampering in God’s domain, made with enthusiasm (by Saw and […]
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Given his scene-stealing work as Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story and the artistic poignancy of his masterwork music […]
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“This is not based on a true story,” say the onscreen titles at the beginning of American Animals. “This is a […]
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This month saw the passing of Philip Roth, as important — and no less controversial — a figure to the field […]
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