There’s a scene about 30 minutes into The Dirt, the biopic loosely adapted from the Mötley Crüe memoir of the same…
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Hotel Mumbai, a brutally realistic dramatization of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, can’t help but inspire some…
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It’s really rather impressive, the extent to which Captive State sucks everything even potentially fun out of the…
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Benjamin Franklin’s well-worn adage that time is money has led us, some centuries later, to the business of…
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Wonder Park represents at least one milestone: Here, finally, is a computer-animated movie where the human characters…
What Five Feet Apart has going for it is Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse. And that’s no small…
Steven Soderbergh’s initial idea for Sex, Lies, And Videotape, as jotted down in his journal, was a mere eight words…
A man and a horse lay sprawled on the ground. Dust swirls around them. One has a knee in his back. A tranquilizer…
Miles Lagoze, a former combat cameraman for the U.S. Marine Corps, opens his war documentary Combat Obscura with a…
Do kids today still know Nancy Drew, the prodigious teenage detective who’s been skulking around novels, occasional…
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Exactly 50 years ago, the U.S. Federal Reserve, which had previously issued bills with values as high as $10,000, made…
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