Jordan Peele’s latest is ambitious, thoughtful, and occasionally thrilling – but it never quite pulls together into a coherent whole.
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Jordan Peele’s latest is ambitious, thoughtful, and occasionally thrilling – but it never quite pulls together into a coherent whole.
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Jono McLeod’s Sundance selection is a documentary with a trick or two (or, perhaps, a trick too many) up its sleeve.
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This 1965 foray into science fiction from the Italian horror master is a fascinating deviation (and inspiration for one of the best sci-fi films of the ’70s).
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With ‘Devil In a Blue Dress’ joining the Criterion Collection, a deep dive on the man who made it – and the first-rate crime picture that got him the gig.
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With a new T. Rex documentary on deck, we look back at Todd Haynes’ fictionalized 1998 exploration of the seminal music scene.
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In ‘Don’t Bother to Knock,’ released this week in 1952, Marilyn Monroe gives one of her best and most underrated performances as a traumatized young woman.
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Louis Malle’s 1980 masterpiece is a glorious ode to lifelong losers, self-delusion, and the charms of Susan Sarandon.
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The problem with ‘Persuasion’ isn’t just its near-heretical take on the Jane Austen classic; it’s that it does it so poorly.
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Olivia Newman’s much-ballyhooed adaptation of the 2018 bestseller is a maddeningly generic piece of work.
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For Bastille Day, we look at Miramax’s short-lived and mostly forgotten French cinema specialty label.
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When Leslie Howard’s plane was shot down in June of 1943, it launched questions and conspiracy theories that persist to this day.
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Our mini-reviews of “Karmalink,” “The Summoned,” “Love Accidentally,” and more of this week’s straight-to-home-viewing fare.
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