Tag: Review
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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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‘Secret Honor’ is a Startling Showcase for Philip Baker Hall
He’s unforgettable in a movie you might never be inclined to revisit.
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You Never Aren’t Feeling ‘Bringing Out the Dead”s Anguish
Even looking at ‘Bringing Out the Dead’ is unpleasant.
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‘The Lost City’ is Microwave-Dinner ‘Romancing the Stone’
Plus: Regina Hall is the reason to see Amazon Prime’s thoughtful but ultimately disappointing ‘Master.’
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‘Rosewood’ is One of John Singleton’s Best
For his fourth movie, a still-not-yet-30 Singleton went in a direction in which he hadn’t yet gone and never would again.
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Pain and Pleasure — But Mostly Pain — in ‘X’ and ‘Deep Water’
Notes on an old-fashioned slasher movie and Adrian Lyne’s return.
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