Category: Review
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It’s Gonna Rain
On ‘I May Destroy You’ and ‘Selling Sunset.’
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‘A Quiet Place in the Country’ Has No Trouble Unsettling Us
Does ‘A Quiet Place in the Country’ belong to the haunted-house subgenre, or the ‘descending into madness’ subgenre?
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Just Be Yourself
On ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ and ‘Let It Be.’
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Rebirth
On ‘Malcolm X,’ ‘He Got Game,’ and ‘Inside Man.’
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Wild Ones
On ‘Suzi Q’ and ‘The Go-Go’s.’
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‘Angst’ is Relentless
In its commitment to uglifying the psychology and very nature of the mass murderer, ‘Angst’ arguably becomes subversively vital.
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‘Mississippi Masala’: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’-Style Rom-Com with a Much Happier Ending
At the end of ‘Mississippi Masala,’ we don’t get an end-all, be-all resolution. Instead we stumble into a temporary clearing.
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The Startling, Subversive Voyeurism of ‘Variety’
‘Variety,’ so wound up and tormented without a singular release, haunts.
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A Star is Not Born in ‘Smithereens’
On Susan Seidelman’s devastating 1982 comedy.
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‘Thirteen’: Rebel Girls
‘Thirteen’ is ultimately about as thick-stroked and (perhaps inadvertently) fear-stoking as an after-school special, just better-acted and more idiosyncratically made.
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‘Starship Troopers’ is Classic Paul Verhoeven
On Verhoeven’s 1997 masterpiece.
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Introspection
On ‘Stromboli’ and ‘Journey to Italy,’ two crucial collaborations between Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini.
