Our mini-reviews of “Finding Lucinda,” “Hidden Face,” “Live a Little,” and more new under-the-radar on-demand offerings.
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Our first report from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival includes mini-reviews of “Wake Up Dead Man,” “Dead Man’s Wire,” “Christy,” “No Other Choice,” “Hamlet,” and more.
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Wim Wenders bounced back from an early disaster by crafting one of his finest films — poignant, keenly observant, and unfailingly true.
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Reporting from the 2025 Venice Film Festival, our correspondent found many selections engaging meaningfully with reality – both the painful present and the imagined past.
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The leading man in this rom-com deserves to be dumped.
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Twenty years ago, before the Weinstein brothers left Miramax to start the Weinstein Company, they released a shoulda-been prestige project that barely made a ripple.
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In honor of his 100th birthday on September 8th, we revisit the late-career passion project that gave Peter Sellers one of his best roles
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There’s not an anniversary, or a news peg, or a new streaming or disc release. We just figure you probably haven’t seen this 1979 disco roller musical — and here’s why you should.
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To honor the recently-departed Terence Stamp, we look back at one of his best (and most unsung) turns: as the Zen center of Stephen Frears’s 1984 crime drama.
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David Strathairn and Jane Levy shine in this gentle gem.
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It’s a tale as old as time. Boy and girl meet. They fall in love. Marriage and children follow. Then the years pass. Things change. Soon their affections curdle into irritations. Eventually they’re sliding into loathing and disgust. Divorce is threatened. A home is broken. Such is the basic plot of Danny DeVito’s wicked 1989 […]
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Martin Scorsese’s film preservation initiative is among the treasure troves on the Criterion Channel.
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