Wintry dreams of rubber-suited heroes and kinkily catsuit-clad vigilantes danced in Tim Burton’s head when he crafted the sequel to his 1989 hit.
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For its 25th anniversary, we look back at Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ follow-up ‘Jackie Brown’ – its breathless anticipation, initial disappointment, and eventual (and deserved) reappraisal.
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Francois Truffaut’s debut feature is one of the seminal texts of the French New Wave, and a thornier-than-usual examination of a childhood informed by the cinema.
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The latest from Sam Mendes is admirably ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful – a case of a director who needed a stronger screenwriter than himself.
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“What if the Grinch was the killer in a forgettable indie slasher movie?” is not a question that needed to be answered.
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The Oscar-winning director reinvents the timeworn tale with this fresh but flawed stop-motion version.
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We first see Charlie as his students see him: as a black box in a Zoom class. “The camera on my laptop still doesn’t work,” he chuckles. “You’re not missing much.” When he’s finally seen, he’s masturbating so furiously he nearly has a heart attack. Severely obese, his blood pressure is 238/134; he suffers from […]
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Musical polymath Jon Brion’s solo album ‘Meaninglessness’ has been re-released, making this a good time to look back at his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson.
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The Brenaissance is here, but before ‘The Whale,’ Brendan Fraser went toe-to-toe with no less than Michael Caine in this razor-sharp adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel.
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This week’s straight-to-VOD mini-reviews include “I Am D.B. Cooper,” “Dragon Eats Eagle,” and “Renegades.”
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With the release of ‘White Noise,’ we look through Noah Baumbach’s films to see how he has reckoned with the question: can I live with the decisions I have made?
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With three separate ‘Pinocchio’ adaptations hitting screens this year, it’s time for a 20th anniversary postmortem of Roberto Benigni’s notorious version.
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