Tag: paul schrader
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‘Oh, Canada’ and ‘Nickel Boys’ Look Back on Painful Pasts
For South Sound: New movies from Paul Schrader and RaMell Ross, reviewed.
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Short Takes: ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘You Hurt My Feelings,’ and ‘Master Gardener’
Disney, Nicole Holofcener, and Paul Schrader.
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The Slow-Burning Dread of ‘Affliction’
‘Affliction’ is a frightening drama about the ripple effects of abuse.
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‘Blue Collar”s Frankness Takes You Aback
‘Blue Collar’ doesn’t end on a hopeful note akin to the more widely seen, and still-good, mainstream unionization drama ‘Norma Rae,’ which came out the next year. It wades in, and stays put in, the hell of working a hard, badly paying job
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‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ is an Exhilarating Biopic
You don’t finish ‘Mishima’ with a holistic sense of who this man was. That doesn’t seem to be what Schrader has in mind, anyway.
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Clouds
On ‘The Card Counter’ and ‘Malignant.’
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‘The Comfort of Strangers’ is a Nightmare That Looks Like a Dream
I hate it in movies when at the end, a character wakes up and is relieved to confirm to themselves and us that everything terrible we’ve just seen was a nightmare. Yet if such an epilogue were screwed on The ‘Comfort of Strangers,’ we might some find comfort.
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