Tag: 1990s
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Favorite Discoveries of 2023
The best movies I watched this year not released in 2023.
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Odds & Ends: December 2023
Notes from the last month.
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‘Soul Food’’s Toxic Flavors
The film asks its central family unit to forgive and forget quite a lot for the sake of its happy ending.
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‘Simply Irresistible’ is a Harmless, Old-Fashioned Rom-Com
A magical crab is both a blessing and a curse in this neither-that-good-nor-that-bad Sarah Michelle Gellar-led romantic comedy.
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‘Jamón, Jamón’ and ‘Belle Epoque,’ Reviewed
Two early Penélope Cruz movies.
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Odds & Ends: October 2023
Halloween movies, 2023 edition.
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‘Demon Knight’ is a Devilishly Good Time
The first cinematic extension of HBO’s ‘Tales from the Crypt’ is darkly funny and frequently thrilling.
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‘Baby Blood’ is Slippery, Gnarly Pregnancy Horror
Carrying a baby to term is already hard enough. What if you had to lug around a parasite forcing you to feed on human blood, too?
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‘Ghostwatch’ is a Found-Footage Masterwork
‘Ghostwatch’’s blacklisted quality only heightens the good time.
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The Force and Fury of ‘The Last of the Mohicans’
Still unlike anything he’s ever done, Michael Mann’s 1992 historical epic is spectacular in a how-did-they-do-this kind of way without letting its astonishing presentation eclipse everything else.
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You Wish ‘Geronimo: An American Legend’ Unfolded from a Different Vantage Point
Walter Hill’s movie is both clear-eyed about the monstrousness of the American government and prone to preferencing the perspectives of white characters.
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‘Clearcut’ is Far Sharper Than Most Revenge Movies
Graham Greene is a force in Ryszard Bugajski’s chilling, thought-provoking 1991 thriller.
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