Tag: Review
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The Quiet Rage of ‘The Best of Everything’
Whatever its shortcomings are, the seriousness with which ‘The Best of Everything’ takes the struggles of young women is remarkable for its era.
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Short Takes: SIFF Edition
On ‘Year of the Fox,’ ‘My Animal,’ and ‘Love to Love You, Donna Summer.’
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Goldie Hawn Gives One of Her Funniest Performances in ‘Housesitter’
She and Steve Martin are so good that it doesn’t bother you much how preposterous the movie is.
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Too Much Too Soon in ‘Bright Lights, Big City’
Like the best-selling book on which it’s based, the movie is smart and efficient — has a certain elegance to it — without ever going anywhere particularly interesting.
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‘Swing Shift’: A Good Movie That Could Have Been Great
Rumor has it that Jonathan Demme’s WWII soap opera had been a masterpiece before his final cut was tampered with by Hawn and her producing partner.
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‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ is a Winning Coming-of-Age Movie
Plus: ‘Clock’ is intriguing, but ultimately ineffective, pregnancy horror.
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The Still-Raw Pain of ‘McQueen’
Released less than a decade after the tragic death of its subject, the Scottish fashion designer Alexander McQueen, ‘McQueen’ is a documentary whose overhanging sadness has the consistency of paint that hasn’t yet dried.
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‘Evil Dead Rise’ is a Relentlessly Good Scare
This bracing new sequel forsakes the original trilogy’s sense of humor for more straightforward frights.
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Diana Ross, Stranded, in ‘Mahogany’
She’s the only good thing about this dour, overly cynical fashion melodrama.
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‘Conan the Destroyer’ is a Lame Sequel
It does have its moments, though.
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‘Catwalk’ is a Slight, But Fun, Fashion Documentary
Using the not-that-interesting Christy Turlington as its dramatic conduit, ‘Catwalk’ gives us an entertaining peek behind the curtain of the fashion industry circa 1994.
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Nicolas Cage Vamps It Up in ‘Renfield’
‘Renfield’ is unsurprisingly best when Cage is on screen.
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