Category: Review
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‘Wife of a Spy’ is a Welcome Change of Pace for Kiyoshi Kurosawa
But the director, known best for his horror movies, doesn’t altogether file his usual sensibilities away.
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‘Thomasine & Bushrod’ is an Underappreciated Lovers-on-the-Run Movie
‘Thomasine & Bushrod’ remains one of the blaxploitation era’s best made, and most thoughtful, works.
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‘Bigger Than Life”s Resounding Anger
By ‘Bigger Than Life’’s end, which offers no resounding resolution, you feel practically pummeled by its driving dilemma.
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Halsey Brings Their Best Album Yet to Auburn
The pop star stopped by the White River Amphitheater last night.
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Good Times with Haim at WAMU Theater
A dispatch from the sister band’s Seattle show.
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‘Charley Varrick’ is an Expertly Constructed Thriller
One of its many wonders is how it moves to and from the several characters involved in this cat-and-mouse chase without losing any of its high-stress momentum.
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‘I Can’t Sleep’ Isn’t Your Average Serial-Killer Thriller
You wouldn’t expect anything less from Claire Denis.
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‘Hopscotch’ is a Laid-Back Caper
It feels wrong calling a spy or chase movie “laid back,” but I can’t think of a better way to describe ‘Hopscotch,’ which could be classified under both subgenres.
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‘Six Degrees of Separation’ Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Stockard Channing, though, is phenomenal.
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‘Saving Face’: Family Values
This is a great movie about a testy mother-daughter bond.
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The Love Games of ‘César and Rosalie’
The movie is so likable and spiritedly acted that its flaws are only incidental in our overall enjoyment of it.
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Bright Eyes — Older, Wiser, and with a New Album — Returns to the Stage
The rock trio, whose ‘comeback’ was thwarted by the pandemic, comes to Seattle in June.
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