Category: the classics
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The Comedy and Horror of ‘The Devils’
‘The Devils’ lampoons, fairly spectacularly, the weaponization and power-leveraging of religion while chillingly underlining just how frightening the practice is.
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In ‘Original Cast Album: Company,’ Recording an Album is as Tense as a Thriller
One does not need to be familiar with ‘Company’ to be roused by its soundtrack’s making.
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It’s Gonna Rain
On ‘I May Destroy You’ and ‘Selling Sunset.’
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Rebirth
On ‘Malcolm X,’ ‘He Got Game,’ and ‘Inside Man.’
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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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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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‘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.
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A Thousand Stars Burst Open
On ‘The Living End,’ ‘Totally Fucked Up,’ and ‘Mysterious Skin.’
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‘The Comfort of Strangers’ is a Nightmare That Looks Like a Dream
I hate it in movies when at the end, a character wakes up and is relieved to confirm to themselves and us that everything terrible we’ve just seen was a nightmare. Yet if such an epilogue were screwed on The ‘Comfort of Strangers,’ we might some find comfort.
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Dark Victory
On ‘Da 5 Bloods’ and ‘The King of Staten Island.’
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