Tag: march 2020
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‘Boom!’: Better Than Its Rep
It’s an anomaly in the bad-movie canon in that many of its detractors recognize that it’s a special kind of bad.
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‘The Witch Who Came from the Sea’ and ‘Demon Seed,’ Reviewed
On Matt Cimber’s misunderstood study of trauma and Donald Cammell’s fairly prescient horror thriller.
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On ‘The Hidden’
‘The Hidden’ is a standard-enough cop thriller though more so feels like the kind of old-fashioned chase movie American International Pictures used to make, just with a sci-fi edge.
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Lesson in Survival
Five films by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li.
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‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ is a Brainy Sex Comedy
On Paul Mazursky’s 1969 comedy classic.
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‘Wild Rose’: A Star is Born
Buckley gives the kind of performance that might make you cry.
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‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ and ‘The Invisible Man,’ Reviewed
One of the best movies of 2019 and an unexpectedly great horror adaptation.
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‘The Lodge,’ ‘Little Monsters,’ and ‘Crawl,’ Reviewed
Notes on movies about descending into madness, zombies, and killer crocs.
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‘The Vanishing’: Darker Than Dark
The film is a testament to an imprecise malice always waiting around the corner — a reminder that anything can happen to anyone.