There’s some sort of irony in Willem Dafoe providing the voice of a cartoon seagull just a few months after he […]
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Jonathan Lynn’s comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000), released 20 years ago this week, is a crime caper that draws much […]
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Seberg (out Friday in limited release) begins with a reenactment of a scene from Jean Seberg’s first movie, St. Joan (1957), […]
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“Before, I was alone. Now I’m not.” – Honeymoon In The Tenant (1976), Roman Polanski’s drunk Trelkovsky asks when, after cutting […]
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The Photograph is a movie that feels needlessly unsure of the story it wants to tell. Stella Meghie’s romance is, at […]
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From their screenplay for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants to their joint directorial debut, 2013’s The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon and […]
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It’s significant that Portrait of a Lady on Fire is written and directed by a woman–Celine Sciamma–as well as photographed by […]
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Mrs. Bruce (Lin Shaye) comes down the stairs carefully holding a full glass of red wine. She rifles through her vinyl […]
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For a group of professional ghost hunters, the main characters in Camp Cold Brook are surprisingly unhappy to discover that the […]
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It would be easy for Come as You Are to turn into a cloying, condescending lecture about how the disabled are […]
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A war is being raged over one of the most popular characters in Batman’s Rogue’s Gallery. Since her 1992 debut on […]
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The closing moments of the 92nd annual Academy Awards ceremony were so thrilling and so affirming – a come-from-behind victory by […]
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