Category: Reviews
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‘Logan’s Run’ is an Intriguing Dystopian Thriller
The seriousness of the world-building and concepts is at odds with the look of the movie.
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‘Conan the Barbarian’: The Movie That Made Arnold Schwarzenegger a Star
This is a project manifestly as interested in thrill-giving as it is in milieu-building.
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‘Boom!’: Better Than Its Rep
It’s an anomaly in the bad-movie canon in that many of its detractors recognize that it’s a special kind of bad.
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‘The Witch Who Came from the Sea’ and ‘Demon Seed,’ Reviewed
On Matt Cimber’s misunderstood study of trauma and Donald Cammell’s fairly prescient horror thriller.
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‘Wild Rose’: A Star is Born
Buckley gives the kind of performance that might make you cry.
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‘The Lodge,’ ‘Little Monsters,’ and ‘Crawl,’ Reviewed
Notes on movies about descending into madness, zombies, and killer crocs.
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‘The Vanishing’: Darker Than Dark
The film is a testament to an imprecise malice always waiting around the corner — a reminder that anything can happen to anyone.
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You Get Lost in ‘Miami Vice’
On Michael Mann’s cinematic take on the 1980s TV show.
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On Ingmar Bergman’s Only Horror Movie
The creative process can be nightmarish. But it’s never, at least in my experience, as nightmarish as it is in ‘Hour of the Wolf.’
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‘The Big Red One’: The Glory of War
‘The Big Red One’ has the look and feel of a far more romantic movie but is perhaps even more pessimistic than its more conventionally pessimistically-presenting counterparts.
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‘Birds of Prey’: A Major Step Up from Its Predecessor
It’s one of the more invigorating DC-sanctioned superhero features in a while.
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‘Babette’s Feast’: Excellent Gastro-Cinema
It’s a lyrical testament, both narratively and visually, to the often transcendental power of cuisine.
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