Category: Review
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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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A Fast and Frightening Night with L7
The iconic rock act celebrated the 30th anniversary of the seminal ‘Bricks Are Heavy’ at the Neptune on Sunday.
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The Camera as a Vampire in ‘Rapture’
Iván Zulueta’s tech horror movie — in which a camera turns into a deadly force — blazed a trail for tech horror classics like ‘Pulse’ and ‘Ringu.’
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Cate Blanchett Gives Her Best Performance Yet in ‘Tár’
Plus: Christian Tafdrup’s ‘Speak No Evil.’
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‘Across the 110th Street’ is a Bleak, Ambivalent Police Procedural
The film is a high-water mark for the 1970s procedural.
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‘Blue Collar”s Frankness Takes You Aback
‘Blue Collar’ doesn’t end on a hopeful note akin to the more widely seen, and still-good, mainstream unionization drama ‘Norma Rae,’ which came out the next year. It wades in, and stays put in, the hell of working a hard, badly paying job
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She’s Done It Again: On Grace Jones at the Moore Theatre
The legendary septuagenarian put on a characteristically singular show in Seattle on Wednesday.
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