Category: Review
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The Paranoid Corporate Games of ‘Black Test Car’
The pitilessness of Yasuzo Masumura’s black comedy continues to ring true more than six decades after its release.
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Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
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In ‘Jane,’ An Actress Stumbles Toward Greatness
On D.A. Pennebaker’s 1962 portrait of a young Jane Fonda.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Aims to Please
For South Sound: Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s space-set adventure wants to be an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser — sometimes to its detriment.
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Catherine O’Hara Was at the Top of Her Game in ‘For Your Consideration’
Christopher Guest’s 2006 comedy is far less laugh-heavy than his previous movies, but the performances — particularly the late O’Hara’s — more than make up for it.
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‘The Girls’’ Feminist Frustrations
Notes on Mai Zetterling’s 1968 dark comedy.
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‘Undertone’: Horror for the Filmed-Podcast Era
Plus: ‘Young Mothers’ is a typically unvarnished, compassionate movie from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. (For 425)
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Vincent Price Makes ‘Theatre of Blood’ Seem Better Than It Is
The horror icon’s performance makes you go a lot easier on a movie that’s much less sharp and suspenseful than it ought to be.
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Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
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‘A Poet’ is No Redemption Story
Simón Mesa Soto’s tragicomedy, about a failed poet who finds something to live for in a talented young student, seems poised to be conventionally uplifting before taking some knottier turns.
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The Calculated Cruelty of ‘Salaam Cinema’
Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s not-quite-documentary is revelatory — and gets its hands a little dirty in the process.
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Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
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