It turns out that a movie genre known for aimless characters and awkward interactions is perfect for telling stories about the holiday season.
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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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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Netflix original is a transparent ‘8 1/2’ and ‘All that Jazz’ riff, filled with both striking images and clumsy metaphors.
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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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Our mini-reviews of ‘The Apology,’ ‘The Christmas Tapes,’ ‘Mistletoe Time Machine,’ and more of this year’s straight-to-VOD holiday fare.
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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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The latest from Sam Mendes is admirably ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful – a case of a director who needed a stronger screenwriter than himself.
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