‘Bacurau’ director Kleber Mendonça Filho keeps it weird but still stays grounded with this relevant political thriller set in 1977 Brazil.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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Juzo Itami’s comic masterpiece remains one of the greatest films about food ever made. Just don’t watch it on an empty stomach
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Rian Johnson’s new “Knives Out” mystery hits all the expected sweet spots, but also goes in some unexpected (and delightful) directions.
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Martin Scorsese’s Vegas mob drama features the single most wince-inducing sequence of his entire filmography.
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Alexander Mackendrick’s noir-vember essential was a flop upon its initial release in 1957 — but its weathered, weary cynicism has aged like a fine wine.
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A failed attempt at a true crime fuels this entertaining meta documentary.
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For a director who’s experienced great popular success, Mamoru Oshii is a remarkably eccentric artist. He’s lamented the fact that his live-actions films have been cursed to relative obscurity. But his first one, The Red Spectacles, is seeing a new re-release, following a crowd-funded restoration. Made in 1987, it weaves influences from Franz Kafka, Seijun […]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film is just as hard to watch as it was half a century ago, but it’s even more necessary today.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Animal Tales of Christmas Magic,’ ‘Fragilé,’ ‘SuperClaus,’ ‘12 Toys of Christmas,’ and more direct-to-video holiday fare.
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“Walk Hard” was a diss track in cinematic form that dismantles the script of “Walk the Line” so thoroughly that it might as well be a beat-for-beat remake
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Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just straight-up destroyed by Harvey Weinstein during his reign as one of the most powerful studio chiefs in Hollywood. Since the director’s cut of Shall We Dance? is coming to Blu-ray this month, let’s revisit […]
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