12/24/14 11:45AM
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The Interview was controversial from the start, yet even two weeks ago, seeing the movie at a press screening at the…
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12/18/14 1:00AM
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We voted, we tallied, we made a list: The A.V. Club’s tribute to the best films of 2014 was democratically…
12/18/14 1:00AM
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From Anatolia to Zubrowka, the great motion pictures of 2014 took you places. They leapt into the past, winding…
12/11/14 1:00AM
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Paul Thomas Anderson may have made his name on a dazzling, Scorsesean flow, but ever since Magnolia, he’s boldly…
10/11/14 4:00PM
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The New York Film Festival closes tonight with Birdman, but the real closer—at least in spirit—was last night’s…
10/04/14 9:00PM
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I don’t even know where to begin with the festival’s centerpiece, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice (Grade: A),…
9/27/14 1:55PM
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As a prelude to the New York Film Festival, the Film Society Of Lincoln Center, the fest’s parent organization,…
9/24/14 4:14PM
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The New York Festival hasn’t even officially started, and it’s already turned self-reflexive. This year’s “spotlight…
9/19/14 2:19PM
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7/24/14 1:00AM
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Judging from reviews and box-office returns, the consensus seems to be that Woody Allen—the artist, as opposed to…
7/10/14 1:00AM
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Land Ho! is Old Joy if that title were taken literally. The film follows two aging friends, once married to sisters,…
6/19/14 1:00AM
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Mexico-based director Amat Escalante’s third feature is a textbook example of festival outrage bait. It runs through…
6/19/14 1:00AM
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One of the highlights of last month’s Cannes Film Festival was Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher, an allegory…
5/08/14 1:00AM
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Over the course of the three Paradise Lost documentaries and 2012’s West Of Memphis, the figures surrounding the…
5/08/14 1:00AM
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As an actor, Jesse Eisenberg specializes in two kinds of social awkwardness. On one hand, he proved an ideal vessel…
5/07/14 1:00AM
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Few directors, let alone Carl Theodor Dreyer, would seem likely to land titles on lists of “auteurist feminist…
4/17/14 11:00AM
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Even “Siggi” Hjartarson, founder of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, admits that the project began as a joke.…
4/17/14 1:00AM
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There are strange movies, and then there are movies that feature Vanessa Paradis as a Hasidic widow and Liev…
3/27/14 1:00AM
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To paraphrase Idiocracy, we used to care whose head was getting slammed into the Hibachi grill and why. As if to…
3/20/14 12:00PM
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Like James Gray, director Raymond De Felitta has carved out a niche turning his camera on under-filmed corners of…