1/28/20 2:00PM
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Mob movies usually foreground the concept of honor among thieves. In this world, you can lie, cheat, steal, and…
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1/23/20 11:00PM
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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…
1/14/20 2:00PM
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Eight years have passed since Beasts Of The Southern Wild went from Sundance sensation to unlikely multiple Oscar…
12/18/19 5:30PM
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In a good detective story, the investigation tends to be more important than the solution. Who can even remember,…
12/18/19 2:00PM
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Over the decade since it was launched, the Ip Man franchise (including recent spinoff Master Z: Ip Man Legacy) has…
12/12/19 4:20PM
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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.…
12/10/19 2:25PM
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Early in The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan, an ambitious journalist (Thandie Newton) sits down to interview…
12/03/19 3:20PM
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Do people still remember the James Frey scandal? Back in 2006, Oprah Winfrey—who’d chosen Frey’s addiction-recovery…
11/26/19 4:00PM
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Benedict XVI’s decision to resign six years ago, thereby becoming the first living ex-pope since the 15th century,…
11/13/19 5:00PM
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Some filmmakers strive to balance their purely artistic impulses with pragmatic commercial considerations via a…
11/12/19 4:35PM
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Two very different narratives unfold simultaneously in the animated French drama I Lost My Body, which won the top…
11/05/19 4:00PM
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Set almost entirely on a cargo ship, Primal is yet another recent low-budget Nic Cage action vehicle in which you…
10/29/19 3:00PM
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If Michael Moore is the Spielberg of documentary filmmaking—a showman whose name and face virtually everyone…
10/22/19 4:10PM
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Nobody goes to Hollywood in Frankie, but a few Hollywood types do show up in Sintra, the naturally beautiful,…
10/15/19 5:30PM
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It’s easy to forget that Spotlight, which looks reasonably contemporary at a glance, was in fact a period piece: The …
10/08/19 3:00PM
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Warning: This review contains major plot revelations.
10/01/19 2:40PM
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Early in Pain And Glory, Pedro Almodóvar’s loosely autobiographical new film, a colorfully animated sequence…
9/24/19 3:00PM
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Takashi Miike knows his way around a bait-and-switch, as anyone who’s seen Audition without any foreknowledge can…
9/17/19 4:00PM
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Inevitably, Hollywood will make movies about Trump’s presidency, emphasizing the nonstop chaos and idiocy. We may…
9/10/19 4:00PM
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Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932), a nightmarish pre-Code horror film populated by actual carnival sideshow performers,…