Category: Review
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‘Peter Hujar’s Day’’s Deceptive Simplicity
Ira Sachs’ low-key, interview transcript-based two-hander is understatedly revealing.
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‘Charisma’ is Not Your Typical Eco-Thriller
But its otherworldly, cryptic chilliness is typical Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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Do the Right Thing
Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy-commencing ‘Where is the Friend’s House?’ empathetically sees the world through a particularly well-meaning child’s eyes.
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‘There’s No One Entry’: How the MoPOP’s Newest Exhibit is Exploring Hip-Hop History
For 425: The launch of the Museum of Pop Culture’s ‘Beats + Rhymes: A Collective Narrative of Hip-Hop’ exhibition coincides with the start of Hip-Hop History Month.
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‘Pieces of April’’s Lived-In Tension
Peter Hedges’ 2003 Thanksgiving-set family drama steers clear of sentimentality.
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Odds & Ends: Halloween Edition
Notes from the last month.
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The Low-Budget Charms of ‘Blacula’
This 1972 reworking of the classic vampire story isn’t very good, but lead actor William Marshall’s performance can be winning.
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‘Stuck’ is Among Stuart Gordon’s Best Movies
The horror filmmaker’s swan song deftly mixes the horrific with the humorous.
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‘After the Hunt’’s Shades of Gray
Luca Guadagnino’s higher education-set follow-up to November 2024’s ‘Queer’ is ambiguous to the point of not saying much at all.
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Dancing the Night Away with Dua Lipa
For 425: What I saw at last night’s Dua Lipa concert in Seattle.
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The Slippery, Enigmatic ‘Yella’
Nina Hoss is entrancing in Christian Petzold’s ‘Carnival of Souls’-inspired movie.
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‘Night of the Demon’: Stylish Supernatural Horror Nearly Ruined by Its Producers
Jacques Tourneur’s tampered-with 1957 film proves that his good instincts are better off not being messed with.
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