Category: the classics
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Anna May Wong is Hypnotic in ‘Piccadilly’
Celebrated as the first Chinese-American movie star, Wong gets a rare vehicle worthy of her time and talent with this 1929 romantic drama.
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Cobwebs: On ‘The Landlord’ and ‘Georgia, Georgia’
Two with Diana Sands.
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‘Claudine’ Finds Magic When It Can
Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones have immediate chemistry in this great romantic comedy.
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Fly Me to the Moon
‘Flash Gordon’’s very-intentional one-dimensionality and arch artifice add up to something delectable and fun.
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Turbulence
Two ‘90s gems — ‘Drylongso’ and ‘The Doom Generation’ — are restored and as invigorating as ever.
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‘Wendy and Lucy’ is a Moving — and Harrowing — Survival Drama
Williams isn’t given a lot to say, but her performance emits her character’s unspoken convictions in a way that tells us everything we need to know about a tenacious young woman struggling to maintain that tenacity.
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‘Cactus Flower’ Makes It Seem Easy to Do Comedy
Everybody is on their A game in this pitch-perfect farce.
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Crashing and Burning in ‘Showing Up’ and ‘Fast X’
New Kelly Reichardt and ‘Fast and Furious’ nonsense.
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You Feel Like You Could Watch ‘Unzipped’ Forever
On one of the great fashion documentaries.
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Paul Newman Gives One of His Best Performances in ‘The Verdict’
The intensity of ‘The Verdict’ reverberates even more because its quest for justice, if everything goes right, doubles as a type of salvation for its lawyer protagonist.
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‘Love Letters” Bad Romance
The movie, featuring one of Jamie Lee Curtis’ best performances, is like a yellow-paged romance potboiler with the emotional dishonesty taken out.
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Though Minor in Stature, ‘A Very Natural Thing’ Feels Major
‘A Very Natural Thing”s quality is near equal to its importance.
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