Category: Review
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‘The Wicker Man’ is a Nightmare You Can’t Wait to Revisit
Unlike in the movie, where an “appointment” with the eponymous structure is, spoiler alert, unappealing, any appointment with any copy of ‘The Wicker Man’ sounds conversely appealing
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On ‘Mikey and Nicky’
Notes on Elaine May’s unconventional buddy comedy.
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A New Kind of Rock Doc
On ‘Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,’ ‘Katy Perry: Part of Me,’ and ‘One Direction: This is Us.’
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On ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
Notes on Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 epic.
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‘The Souvenir’ is a Delicate, Devastating Memory Movie
‘The Souvenir’ has a strange dichotomy between overwhelming intimacy and multilayered enigma.
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Maggie Cheung Gives One of Her Best Performances in ‘Center Stage’
But the movie is made shakier because of its distrait presentation.
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Private Eyes
‘Claire’s Camera’ is an epigrammatic 69 minutes, yet its short running time isn’t synonymous with sketchiness or lazy economy.
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On ‘Amazing Grace’
At the center of this church, Aretha Franklin creates not just a feeling of home and unity but announces herself as the closest thing to a divine being personified in that place and that moment.
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‘Homecoming’ is Overwhelming
‘Homecoming’ is undoubtedly one of the great rock docs, joining the pantheon of genre definitives like ‘Stop Making Sense’ and ‘Sign ‘o’ the Times.’
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Julianne Moore is Sublime in ‘Gloria Bell’
Moore, giving one of the great performances of her great-performance-heavy career, inspires such empathy that there came a point in the movie where I noticed that my facial expressions almost exactly matched the ones she was giving on screen.
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The Leisurely Darkness of ‘The Beach Bum’
Considering everything that happens to Moondog, the protagonist of ‘The Beach Bum,’ over the course of a season, we find it surprising that there never comes a point where we find him sitting down, hunched over with his head in his hands, moaning, ‘the world’s out to get me.’
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‘The Decline of Western Civilization’ Evocatively Captures a Moment
Much would change by the time ‘The Decline of Western Civilization,’ premiered in the summer of 1981.
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