Over the course of three films, Joe Swanberg and Jake Johnson took important artistic and personal steps reflected in the next phases of their careers.
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Director Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” follow-up was 1973’s “Charley Varrick” (now streaming on Netflix), a lean, mean, nasty little heist thriller starring… Walter Matthau?
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Daniel Levy’s feature directorial debut is a cozy, comforting comedy about how love and friendships help us through pain.
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Nestled within the dramatic conducting sequences and prosthetic noses of “Maestro” is a quiet moment of grief so understated that it almost feels like it was an accident that it was included in the first place.
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A look at the drama, both onscreen and off, of this classic but underseen romantic three-hander from director David Lean.
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The image of the protagonist running across space on New Year’s Eve is a potent one, scattered across cinema history, with classic films redefining it for a new era and a new audience. What does it convey about our desire for newness and progression?
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I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last couple of weeks trying to understand why I haven’t been able to concur with the widespread opinion, shared in quite a few listicles just like this, that 2023 was a particularly exceptional year for movies. I’m not saying it’s been a bad one, certainly, as […]
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The skillful playing of this musical adaptation can’t make up for the sheer miscalculation at its center.
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“Much Ado About Nothing” gets an R-rated update with this raunchy rom-com starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney.
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They may shirk the label, but both “Maestro” and “Ferarri” tell us much about the ubiquity — and the limitations — of biopics in contemporary American prestige cinema.
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Andrew Haigh’s intimate, time-bending romance is worth the ugly cry.
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Though Sean Durkin’s latest is undeniably well-acted and beautifully made, the dramatic lives of the wrestling Von Erich family make for oddly undramatic storytelling.
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