Tag: Review
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‘eXistenZ’: Sins of the Flesh
‘eXistenZ’ is the closest Cronenberg has come to making a nifty, economic thriller meant above all to be escapist.
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‘Death Watch’ is an Inspired, Prescient Reality-TV Satire
Romy Schneider gives a mesmeric performance wavering from heartrendingly restrained to unselfconsciously exposed.
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Watching ‘Dagon’ is Like Living Through a Nightmare
‘Dagon’ is based on a novella by H.P. Lovecraft.
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‘Innocents with Dirty Hands’ is Among Claude Chabrol’s Most Straightforwardly Entertaining Movies
In ‘Innocents with Dirty Hands,’ Chabrol’s uncharacteristically keyed-up thriller, few people say what they mean or are thinking what you think they are.
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Failed Ambitions and Thwarted Desires in ‘Paris, 13th District’ and ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’
Neither movie successfully achieves what it’s trying to accomplish.
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Time is Having All the Fun in ‘The Hourglass Sanatorium’
It moves over there when you want it to go here; relentlessly zigging and zagging, it plays by rules so cryptic that after a while you have to settle into the fact that linearity is only bent and swirled around here.
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‘Lucky’ is a Moving (Almost) Swan Song for Harry Dean Stanton
‘Lucky’ marks only the second time its 90-year-old star, prolific character actor Stanton, ever stood at the forefront of a movie.
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‘Shutter’ Makes Up for Its Lack of Originality with Clever Chills
This final twist in the story finds ‘Shutter’ at its best.
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‘Jigoku’: From Hell
‘Jigoku’ is an hour-and-40-minute-long movie that could do without the first hour.
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The (Mostly) Divine Excesses of ‘Ambulance’
Plus: Catch ‘Memoria’ while you still can.
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Realities in Flux in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and ‘After Yang’
A new Michelle Yeoh vehicle and the latest from Kogonada, reviewed.
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