Tag: june 2021
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‘Tokyo Fist’ Comes at You Fast
Shinya Tsukamoto’s boxing movie turns genre norms on their head.
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‘Slap Shot’: A Sports Comedy Where Violence is the Answer
Newman’s 1977 star vehicle is one of the most palpably angry sports movies I’ve seen.
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Death Proof
On ‘F9’ and ‘Siberia.’
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Tokyo Drifters
Two Seijun Suzuki movies — ‘Youth of the Beast’ and ‘Gate of Flesh’ — starring Joe Shishido.
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Fairy Tales
On ‘The Company of Wolves’ and ‘Lemora.’
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The Fragmentations of ‘Je T’aime, Je T’aime’
Alain Resnais tries out sci-fi.
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‘Slow Machine’ is the Right Amount of Enigmatic
Joe DeNardo and Paul Felte’s feature debut is stubbornly mysterious. But it doesn’t alienate you.
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Hiders & Seekers
On ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ and ‘A Quiet Place Part II.’
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‘La Main du Diable’ is a Nightmare
‘La Main du Diable’ was made during an especially dark moment in France’s history.
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Curses
On ‘Army of the Dead,’ ‘The Dry,’ and ‘Undine.’
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‘Massacre Gun’ is a By-the-Book Yakuza Thriller
But it’s steadily generous to the senses.
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‘La Otra’: An Excellent Good-Twin-Bad-Twin Melodrama
Dolores Del Rio is sensational.
Peterson Reviews 