Category: Reviews
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No Business Like Show Business
On ‘On the Record’ and Showbiz Kids,’ both on HBO Max.
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Doing Too Much
On Ken Russell’s ‘The Boy Friend,’ ‘Lisztomania,’ and ‘Gothic.’
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Bifurcated Romantic Drama ‘Paris Blues’ is More Interested in the Less-Interesting Couple
‘Paris Blues’ has gusto musically and visually; the performances frequently spark. But this is a film whose boldness only comes in glimmers.
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2020 Vision
On ‘Palm Springs,’ ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,’ and ‘The Old Guard.’
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‘Under Capricorn’ is Hardly the Fiasco It’s Been Made Out to Be
Alfred Hitchcock long insisted that 1949’s inconsistent period melodrama ‘Under Capricorn’ — which lost money, which got bad reviews upon release, which sat between commercial letdowns ‘Rope’ and ‘Stage Fright’ — was a failure.
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The Purgatorial Drama of ‘My Brother’s Wedding’
I was less compelled by the plot’s movement than I was by how Burnett captures the dynamic between family members.
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A Couple of Reasons to See ‘The Stud’
Though neither one exactly speaks to the quality of the movie itself.
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You Can Handle ‘The Truth’
The disconnect between Binoche’s and Deneuve’s characters feels just right for a mother-daughter duo whose relationship has always been lopsided. But it’s too uncluttered and inconsistently introspective to stir.
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Playing Your Song
On ‘Intermezzo’ and ‘A Woman’s Face.’
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‘Gaslight’: Bad Love
This movie lays out a specific, common kind of torment that until then had not been so concisely asserted in the popular imagination.
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Smile Now, Cry Later
On Maurice Pialat’s ‘Loulou’ and ‘Police.’
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The Blissful Myopia of ‘Atlantic City’
Despite the overwhelming presences of failure and missed opportunity — like no matter how hard you try, you cannot effectively, cleanly, run away from your past — it still feels, to me, like an optimistic movie.
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