Category: Reviews
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Horror Movies
On ‘Bergman Island’ and ‘Spencer.’
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Worms
On ‘Last Night in Soho’ and ‘Dune.’
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Retrospections
On ‘The French Dispatch,’ ‘The Velvet Underground,’ and ‘The Last Duel.’
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‘Pulse’ Makes Us Take a Silly Premise Seriously
It’s a nightmare-as-movie, where not much makes sense but where the environment in which everything takes place is so creepily immersive, feels true enough, that even when things get a hair tedious you still haven’t gotten rid of the pit that has formed in your gut.
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Sex and Death, Locked in a Tango, in ‘Def by Temptation’
In this atmospheric and sensual (but not humorless) horror movie, Bible-style capital-T temptation is embodied by a blood-thirsty, ostensibly eons-old succubus that disguises itself as a distractingly beautiful woman.
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Bad Ideas
On ‘Halloween Kills’ and ‘Lamb.’
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Men on Missions
On ‘No Time to Die’ and ‘The Guilty’
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‘Taste of Cherry’ is Simple and Complicated
The jarring meta finale may seem playful — from a pessimistic perspective even a copout — but I think it’s wise.
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Ways of Seeing
On ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye,’ ‘Mogul Mowgli’, and ‘The Voyeurs.’
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‘The Loneliest Planet’ Upends the End-of-a-Relationship Movie
The movie isn’t about who these people are, but how they respond to the unexpected.
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‘Road to Morocco’ Has You Had-to-Be-There-Itis
This is a movie whose comedy feels distinctly 1942.
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Clouds
On ‘The Card Counter’ and ‘Malignant.’
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