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Québecois filmmaker Denis Côté (Vic + Flo Saw A Bear) takes his time establishing the arresting premise of his…
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Apr 14
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Apr 7
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Critics like to throw around the phrase “pure cinema,” which is generally used to suggest that the medium’s formal…
Apr 6
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Mar 24
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Mar 10
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Who are the lost girls in Lost Girls, a righteously angry drama adapted from Robert Kolker’s nonfiction book about…
Mar 3
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A movie boasting a title like The Burnt Orange Heresy seems to be begging for viewer sophistication, but this…
Feb 25
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Midway through A White, White Day, which was Iceland’s Oscar submission last year (it wasn’t nominated), a man…
Feb 18
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Characters who impersonate religious figures tend to be a source of comedy—think of Whoopi Goldberg posing as a nun…
Feb 11
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Shot during the 2018 Winter games in Pyeongchang, Olympic Dreams plays a bit like Escape From Tomorrow, the…
Feb 9
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This article reveals major plot points from Jojo Rabbit and Life Is Beautiful, including discussion of both films’…
Jan 28
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Mob movies usually foreground the concept of honor among thieves. In this world, you can lie, cheat, steal, and…
Jan 23
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More of a two-hour ceremony than a movie, The Last Full Measure recounts strenuous real-life efforts to secure a…
Jan 14
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Eight years have passed since Beasts Of The Southern Wild went from Sundance sensation to unlikely multiple Oscar…
Dec 18
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In a good detective story, the investigation tends to be more important than the solution. Who can even remember,…
Dec 18
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Over the decade since it was launched, the Ip Man franchise (including recent spinoff Master Z: Ip Man Legacy) has…
Dec 12
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There’s little doubt or drama in Terrence Malick’s 3-hour tribute to moral resistance, A Hidden Life
People lie constantly—to others and to themselves, quite casually or after swearing a solemn oath not to do so.…
Dec 10
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Early in The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan, an ambitious journalist (Thandie Newton) sits down to interview…
Dec 3
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Do people still remember the James Frey scandal? Back in 2006, Oprah Winfrey—who’d chosen Frey’s addiction-recovery…