Category: Reviews
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‘The American Friend’ Works Over You Slowly
Wim Wenders adapts Patricia Highsmith.
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‘Sapphire’ Has Noble Intentions, But Still Feels Safe
For a brief period beginning in the late 1950s, English director Basil Dearden and his producing partner, Michael Relph, decided to focus their attention on several projects through which they could explore social issues often left underexamined in British cinema.
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The Midlife Crises of ‘Husbands’
The highest compliment I can give ‘Husbands’ is that I didn’t notice any false notes in it.
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Big Babies
On ‘Shiva Baby’ and ‘Godzilla vs. Kong.’
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Peter Falk Makes ‘Murder, Inc.’ Worthwhile — Barely
Although narratively busy — soon enough a police investigation subplot arrives — ‘Murder, Inc.’ is inanimate from the beginning.
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The Entity
On ‘Lucky,’ ‘The Empty Man,’ and ‘Violation.’
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The Tricky Surfaces of ‘Even the Wind is Afraid’
The film isn’t not gratifying, but you want it to boil over more — perhaps so far that a mess is left behind. Still, it has a hell of a simmer.
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Whirlpool
On ‘Christmas Holiday’ and ‘The Locket.’
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‘Murder, He Says’ is Morbidly Funny
‘Murder, He Says’ is a kind of companion piece to ‘Arsenic and Old Lace.’
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‘Brother from Another Planet’ Has an Intriguing Premise, But It Struggles to Sustain a Feature-Length Movie
Our curiosity depletes before the journey has ended — or has just begun.
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The Dance
On Fritz Lang’s Indian epic
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A Life Ahead
On ‘Minari’ and ‘The World to Come.’
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