Tag: Review
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Guests from Hell in ‘Death Game’
Peter S. Traynor’s helter-skelter black comedy turns the home-invasion thriller on its head.
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Sissy Spacek Shines in ‘Raggedy Man’
This Flannery O’Connor-esque drama never totally comes together, but Spacek gives one of her most affecting performances in it.
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‘Stir of Echoes’ Feels Longer Than It Is
On a Kevin Bacon vehicle from 1999.
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Trouble in ‘Paradise’ and ‘Stars at Noon’
George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite, and Claire Denis releases her second movie of 2022.
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‘Clockers’ is a Deeply Felt Coming-of-Age Movie
It’s not as much the murder itself ‘Clockers’ is most preoccupied with; it’s the context in which it takes place that interests Lee.
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‘Triangle of Sadness’ is a Nauseously Funny Black Comedy
New movies from Ruben Östlund and Dario Argento.
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Though a Historical First, ‘Hellbent’ is Only So-So
‘Hellbent’ is often billed as the first gay slasher movie.
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The Camera as a Vampire in ‘Rapture’
Iván Zulueta’s tech horror movie — in which a camera turns into a deadly force — blazed a trail for tech horror classics like ‘Pulse’ and ‘Ringu.’
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‘Walker’ is Alex Cox at His Best
‘Walker’ starts not at the beginning of its subject’s life but just before he started down the path to his doom.
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Icons Remixed in ‘Blonde’ and ‘Moonage Daydream’
New movies about Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie only superficially examine their subjects.
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On ‘They Live’
In John Carpenter’s ‘They Live,’ a man finally starts seeing things for what they are.
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‘Across the 110th Street’ is a Bleak, Ambivalent Police Procedural
The film is a high-water mark for the 1970s procedural.
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