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I’m on Spring Break. Posts will resume on April 20.
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Death and Desire in ‘The Kneeling Goddess’
Roberto Gavaldón’s ‘The Kneeling Goddess’ is about people who not only won’t get what they most desire — the pursuit of it will bring them to their ruin.
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‘No Man of Her Own’ Makes You Take a Silly Premise Seriously
‘No Man of Her Own’ is as good as it is — at least before it fulfills its melodramatic obligations — because its writers and director Mitchell Leisen give it all maybe more emotional legitimacy than it needs.
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Talk to the Hand: On ‘Talk to Me’
In ‘Talk to Me,’ the hand that feeds also bites back.
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A Fresh Start Gone Rotten in ‘East Side, West Side’
In ‘East Side, West Side,’ marriage becomes less a haven — something one should always aspire to — but something to be wary of.
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‘Claudine’ Finds Magic When It Can
Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones have immediate chemistry in this great romantic comedy.
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Fly Me to the Moon
‘Flash Gordon’’s very-intentional one-dimensionality and arch artifice add up to something delectable and fun.
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Disasters
On ‘John Carter,’ ‘Battleship,’ and ‘Savages,’ the movies that made Taylor Kitsch’s infamous 2012.
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New Worlds, New Problems in ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’
Happy Barbenheimer Weekend to all who celebrated.
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The Superhuman Spectacle of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour
The singer-songwriter, more popular than ever, stopped by Lumen Field for a two-night residency over the weekend.
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’21 Bridges’ is a Solid, If Unremarkable, Cop Thriller
The movie is additionally bolstered by strong performances from Chadwick Boseman, Stephan James, and Taylor Kitsch.
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Faster, Pussycat!
On ‘Grindhouse.’
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The ‘Mission: Impossible’ Franchise Defies the Odds — Again
Notes on the latest addition to a series that, in the last decade, seems only to get better and better.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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The Unrelenting Grimness of ‘Frozen River’
Misty Upham and especially Melissa Leo are excellent in this frostbitten drama.
March 27, 2026
February 4, 2026
November 6, 2025
Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
March 30, 2026
Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
March 11, 2026
Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
March 4, 2026
Peterson Reviews 