The holidays may be over, but Ernst Lubitsch’s Christmas favorite is still ideal cold-weather comfort viewing for its 85th anniversary.
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Dunst’s characters in the two films maybe be polar opposites, but to champion one without the other falls prey to the social norms in which they—and we—exist.
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“It’s Xavier,” he mumbles. “With an X or an S?” comes the reply, and an early hint at the kind of […]
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A new year is supposed to bring with it a clean slate but Ben Wheatley’s pitch-black family comedy reveals the lie behind that promise.
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Ahead of Robert Eggers’s much-hyped update on Nosferatu, a look back at the underrated meta horror film from 2000.
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The 1984 cult favorite imparts a pragmatic but ultimately hopeful message for other misfits toughing out the holiday season.
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A more-personal-than-usual reflection on the holiday perennial, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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Five decades have done little to diminish the confrontational power of Lina Wertmüller’s 1974 classic of sexual politics. In fact, they might have intensified it.
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Terry Gilliam’s vision of a totalitarian state where Christmas shopping and terrorist bombings exist side by side is a discomfiting primer for things to come.
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When Walt Disney Pictures released ‘Fantasia 2000’ in IMAX, they paved the way for a whole new world of theatrical exhibition.
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This story of a modern-day witch hunt bucks the tradition of depicting Christmas as a glittery veil that covers thornier questions of morality and charity.
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Jonathan Levine’s stoner comedy pays homage to Christmas movie forebears and poignantly captures the particular joys and melancholy of old friendships.
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