Category: Review
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‘À Nos Amours’ is One of the Great Coming-of-Age Movies
Where other directors might moralize or condescendingly diagnose, Maurice Pialat delicately and sensitively handles the emotional complications of a teenage girl’s budding sex life.
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The Quiet Menace of ‘La Cérémonie’
Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert make for an unsettling pair in Claude Chabrol’s excellent psychological thriller.
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‘Smoke Signals’ is a Stirring, Spirited Road Movie
Historical significance aside, Chris Eyres’ drama is in any case a soulful and often wise movie.
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‘The Fabelmans’ is One of the Year’s Best Movies
‘The Fabelmans’ is, among other things, a sublime love letter to the joys of filmmaking.
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The 1975 Brought Its Very Best to Seattle
The English rock outfit stopped by Seattle’s WAMU Theater Friday night with a boisterous, thoughtful performance.
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The Slow-Burning Dread of ‘Affliction’
‘Affliction’ is a frightening drama about the ripple effects of abuse.
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‘In the Bedroom’ is a Powerful Meditation on Grief
On actor turned director Todd Field’s first effort as a filmmaker.
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Elizabeth Taylor is Great in the Impenetrable ‘Identikit’
This 1974 vehicle is often classified as so bad it’s good, but like most of the oddities Taylor made in the late-1960s and early ’70s, ‘Identikit’ is way too interesting to be so easily discarded.
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After Stints with SZA and Maggie Rogers, a Renton Musician Goes Solo
Kaley Puckett, who performs under the name Puck, is releasing their solo debut this month.
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Bad Love in ‘Decision to Leave’ and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
New movies from Park Chan-wook and Martin McDonagh, reviewed.
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‘The Thing’ is an Early High for John Carpenter
Though initially poorly received, Carpenter’s 1981 masterpiece is now rightfully recognized for what it always was.
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‘Stir of Echoes’ Feels Longer Than It Is
On a Kevin Bacon vehicle from 1999.
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