Even the late, great filmmaker’s critical and commercial “failures” are compelling experiments in adaptation and genre.
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On the anniversary of the action smash’s release, a look back at the attitudes of that precarious era, and why it was such effective propaganda.
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It spawned one of the most ubiquitous memes on the Internet. The rest of the movie (now streaming on HBO Max) is pretty great too.
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You don’t have to know its labored production and release history to diagnose ‘The Woman in the Window’ as an absolute mess. But that helps explain it.
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David Charbonier and Justin Powell’s low budget horror movie is eerily effective, thanks to a resourceful approach and a spellbinding leading performance.
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Mike Nichols never made a musical. But in his adaptation of Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel, he came very close.
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The contemporary music and cultural bookmarks of the two films – released within a week of each other twenty years ago – weren’t inserted in laziness or error, but to better connect modern audiences with stories of the distant past.
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Our mini-reviews of ’15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot (#1 Will Blow Your Mind),’ ‘Benny Loves You,’ ‘What Lies West,’ and more.
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When it hit theaters 25 years ago, critics dismissed it as an empty blockbuster. But looking back, ‘Twister’ has more heart and soul than it gets credit for.
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The (comparatively) young animation studio behind ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ is all over the map, in terms of style and quality – and that seems to be just what they’re striving for.
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Well, the ‘Paddington 2’/’Citizen Kane’ Rotten Tomatoes story did one thing: it gave ‘Kane’ fans a new villain, after years of jeering this, its Best Picture usurper.
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Guy Ritchie’s latest is a lifeless, listless, hopeless mess, with the once exciting writer/director (and his frequent star Jason Statham) merely going through the motions.
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