Category: Reviews
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‘Thriller — A Cruel Picture’ Doesn’t Know What It Wants to Accomplish
Notes on a big inspiration on ‘Kill Bill.’
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The Subjects of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Deserve Better
This well-intentioned biopic is bristled with distortion and damaging excision.
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On ‘Naked Lunch’
Not uncommon for Cronenberg, who often makes apolcalyptic-feeling movies in which sense is never among the top priorities, ‘Naked Lunch’ is never rational.
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Forces of Personality
On ‘Boudu Saved from Drowning’ and ‘Elena and Her Men.’
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‘The Dead Don’t Die’ is Minor Jim Jarmusch
The film, by its end, makes for a collection of exceptional performances and jokes strung together by an allegory whose center doesn’t hold.
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‘Creepshow’: An Anomalously Solid Horror-Anthology Movie
All efficiently capitalize on fairly all-inclusive fears and sprinkle in some nihilism and black humor for good measure.
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‘Three … Extremes’ Lives Up to Its Title
On an inspired horror-anthology movie.
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‘Branded to Kill’ is Thrillingly Unruly
Seijun Suzuki’s 40th film for the Nikkatsu Company was at one time a final straw.
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