Fifty years ago, Hugh Hefner tried to extend his Playboy empire into film production. It did not go quite as planned.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘East of the Mountains,’ ‘American Night,’ ‘Val,’ and more.
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Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 comedy, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a prickly satire that’s lost none of its edge.
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Netflix’s new Melissa McCarthy vehicle is an odd mishmash of incongruent tones and poorly developed characters.
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The new film adaptation of the Broadway smash is ill-conceived on nearly every level.
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Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s familial drama, released 25 years ago this week, is so much more than a food movie.
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More from the Toronto International Film Festival, including mini-reviews of ‘The Starling,’ ‘Listening to Kenny G,’ ‘The Electric Life of Louis Wan,’ and more:
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From the ground at TIFF, our mini-reviews of ‘Dune,’ ‘Last Night in Soho,’ ‘Spencer,’ and more.
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On its 35th anniversary, a look back at the erotic eccentricities of David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece.
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John Boorman’s 1972 backwoods thriller (now streaming on HBO Max) remains a potent and powerful work – a revenge movie with a twist.
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Clint Eastwood’s latest stumbles a bit on its way out of the gate, but eventually settles in as an enjoyable and even moving character-driven drama.
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Michael Showalter’s seriocomic biopic has its share of missed opportunities, but the performances (particularly Jessica Chastain in the title role) bring it home.
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