Tag: may 2020
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‘The Kids Are All Right’: Or Maybe Not
Cholodenko has made ‘The Kids Are All Right’ not in the key of an American tragedy but rather in the spirit of a semi-lightweight slice-of-life dramedy.
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‘Being Julia’ is Nothing Without Annette Bening
‘Being Julia’ is a flat imitation of a Hollywood Golden Era melodrama.
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You Can’t Look Away from ‘Color of Night’
I like to think of ‘Color of Night’ not as a mere failure but more a kind of transcendent moment where every one of the erotic thriller’s most tiresome tropes coalesced and then started the process of stupefying genre self-cannibalization.
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‘Cherry Falls’ is a Solid Teen Slasher Movie
‘Cherry Falls’ felt kind of like a balm when I saw it.
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‘The Lodger’ is Feature-Length Foreshadowing
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 movie thrillingly offers ideas and themes that would later be more deeply explored at their most fetal.
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Everyone is on Their A-Game in ‘Some Like It Hot’
The movie, aside from 1953’s ‘Niagara,’ is also the one, I think, which best showcases Monroe’s preternatural relationship with the camera.
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Presumed Guilty
On ‘Suspect,’ ‘Reversal of Fortune,’ and ‘Guilty as Sin.’
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‘The American President’: An Appetizer for ‘The West Wing’
It’s a broad-stroked, entertaining admixture of love and politics.
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In a Lonely Place
On ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ and ‘The Report.’
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‘The Daytrippers’: High Stress on the Road
Is Eliza being cheated on? In ‘The Daytrippers,’ a great quasi-road comedy movie from Greg Mottola, the question, posed at the beginning of the film, will be answered at the end of a long, messy day.
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School Daze
On ‘Selah and the Spades,’ ‘The Half of It,’ and ‘Bad Education.’
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‘Working Girl’ Has a Bad Aftertaste
With its sitcom-esque inflections, it becomes a cockeyed horror movie.
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