Robert Mitchum turns in a late-career-best performance in Peter Yates’s powerfully bleak Boston crime picture.
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Jennifer Lawrence proves she is just as adept at (very raunchy) comedy as she is at drama.
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Gus Van Sant’s 1995 satirical thriller proved (for the first of many times) that the then-Mrs. Cruise was much more than just a pretty face.
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Otto Preminger and Jean Seberg’s second collaboration – a queasy father-daughter tale set on the French Riviera – is perfect summer viewing for misanthropes.
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Quick-hit reviews for “Midday Black Midnight Blue,” “Surrounded,” “Coyote,” and more of this week’s straight-to-VOD titles.
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Our mini-reviews of a half-dozen titles from the recently-completed fest, including “The Listener,” “Cinnamon,” “Chasing Chasing Amy,” and more.
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Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 drama (now streaming on Amazon Prime) was one of the most controversial films of its day—and has only grown more so in the intervening years.
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Wes Anderson’s latest doesn’t quite hit the heights of his recent output, but it’s a charming and occasionally moving effort nonetheless.
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The sequel to Chris Hemsworth’s made-for-Netflix action extravaganza offers, unsurprisingly, more of the same.
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The release of Wes Anderson’s latest movie has inspired a host of criticism and tributes which, unfortunately, trade in the same clichés and do injustice to his body of work.
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Thirty-five years ago, Penelope Spheeris encapsulated the past, present, and future of hair metal in a documentary filled with glorious excess.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new must-see titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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