Tag: april 2022
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Time is Having All the Fun in ‘The Hourglass Sanatorium’
It moves over there when you want it to go here; relentlessly zigging and zagging, it plays by rules so cryptic that after a while you have to settle into the fact that linearity is only bent and swirled around here.
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Short Takes: ‘The Northman,’ ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth,’ ‘Petite Maman,’ and ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’
Four new movies.
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‘Shutter’ Makes Up for Its Lack of Originality with Clever Chills
This final twist in the story finds ‘Shutter’ at its best.
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‘Jigoku’: From Hell
‘Jigoku’ is an hour-and-40-minute-long movie that could do without the first hour.
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Hatchie is Making the Best Music of Her Career
The Australian shoegaze artist, whose excellent sophomore album is out next week, comes to Neumos in May.
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The (Mostly) Divine Excesses of ‘Ambulance’
Plus: Catch ‘Memoria’ while you still can.
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Realities in Flux in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and ‘After Yang’
A new Michelle Yeoh vehicle and the latest from Kogonada, reviewed.
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‘La Llorona”s Horrors Aren’t Confined to Fiction
It’s not immediately clear how ‘La Llorona,’ the excellent new film from Jayro Bustamante, relates to the 500-year-old legend from which it takes its title.
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