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Note: The writer of this review watched The Last Vermeer from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any…
Sep 4
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Dec 19 2019
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There’s a moment near the beginning of the definitive adaptation of A Christmas Carol I thought about a lot as I…
Nov 21 2019
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There have been a multitude of Christmas Carol adaptations, featuring everyone from Henry Winkler to Jim Carrey,…
Feb 16 2018
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Not much is yet known about The Innocents, the new Netflix series from first-time writer-creators Hania Elkington…
Apr 13 2017
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Feb 27 2017
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“Each generation has its own epic confrontations it must deal with,” narrates Cleve Jones (Guy Pearce) over the…
Feb 2 2017
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The Catcher Was A Spy, the movie about a real-life baseball player turned American spy, has begun filling out its…
Nov 21 2016
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It’s 2016, and directors are still out here trying to reinvent the Western. Dutch director Martin Koolhoven takes…
Jul 14 2016
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Almost all of Kristen Stewart’s post-Twilight career has played out like a rebuke to that intermittently enjoyable…
Apr 18 2016
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The first teaser for Drake Doremus’ Equals introduced a love story starring Kristen Stewart that‘s nowhere near as…
Jan 7 2016
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The…
Oct 15 2015
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INT. — JOHN CARPENTER’S HOUSE — NIGHT
Jun 15 2015
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What was it that Andy Warhol once said? That in the future, everyone would play him in a movie or TV show for 15…
Jun 4 2015
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Cobie Smulders and Guy Pearce are in a movie directed by Andrew Bujalski, the writer-director of minimalist,…
May 28 2015
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After making a movie about contract law (Beeswax) and another about a computer programming convention (Computer Chess
Jan 28 2015
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Yesterday afternoon, on my final day of Sundance, Variety officially brought to an end the hours of speculation that…
Dec 4 2014
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It seems like just yesterday that the A.V. Club was pouring over the initial lineup of the 2014 Sundance Film…
Jun 12 2014
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A fashionably grim Ozploitation thriller, The Rover finds writer-director David Michôd casting the Australian…
May 20 2014
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One of the criticisms occasionally lobbed at Cannes is that the programmers have their “pet” filmmakers, the ones…