Tag: Review
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‘The Bad and the Beautiful’ is an Essential Hollywood Melodrama
Vincente Minnelli doesn’t mince anything here.
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‘The Day of the Locust’ is Almost Too Bleak
John Schlesinger’s ‘The Day of the Locust’ says what movies about Hollywood love to say almost as much as they do that ‘making movies is magical’: that this city is much more a town defined by shattered success and cynical commodification than it is a beautiful place where dreams have an unusual ability to come true.
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Too High
On ‘The Stunt Man.’
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Horror Movies
On ‘Bergman Island’ and ‘Spencer.’
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The Profound Grief of ‘Fearless’
‘Fearless’ is one of the finest of all movies about grief I’ve seen.
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‘Dance with the Devil’ Does Too Much
‘Dance with the Devil’ is a busy movie; its narrative poses so many potential problems for the characters they could practically form a line.
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‘Pulse’ Makes Us Take a Silly Premise Seriously
It’s a nightmare-as-movie, where not much makes sense but where the environment in which everything takes place is so creepily immersive, feels true enough, that even when things get a hair tedious you still haven’t gotten rid of the pit that has formed in your gut.
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Sex and Death, Locked in a Tango, in ‘Def by Temptation’
In this atmospheric and sensual (but not humorless) horror movie, Bible-style capital-T temptation is embodied by a blood-thirsty, ostensibly eons-old succubus that disguises itself as a distractingly beautiful woman.
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Bad Ideas
On ‘Halloween Kills’ and ‘Lamb.’
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‘Countess Dracula’ Doesn’t Deserve Ingrid Pitt
‘Countess Dracula’’s wall-to-wall wasted potential is almost as suffocating as the castle in which its bloodthirsty noblewoman commits her imaginatively heinous crimes.
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Men on Missions
On ‘No Time to Die’ and ‘The Guilty’
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‘The House That Dripped Blood’ is a Solid Horror-Omnibus Movie
Even if ‘The House That Dripped Blood’ isn’t particularly scary in real time, the places its stories go manage to still linger in our memory a bit — an effect all good horror should have.
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