Tag: Review
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Something More
On ‘Kajillionaire’ and ‘Shithouse.’
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‘The Brute’ is an Unusually Straightforward Melodrama from Luis Buñuel
This is a a tawdry melodrama, but it’s fun-tawdry.
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Moving Forward, Looking Backward
Sofia Coppola’s latest and ‘Yes, God, Yes,’ Karen Maine’s smart and funny directing debut.
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The Human Comedy
On ‘Real Life,’ ‘Modern Romance,’ and ‘Lost in America,’ three projects from writer-director-actor Albert Brooks.
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‘Santa Sangre’: A Slasher Movie, Jodorowsky Style
‘Santa Sangre’ is wonderfully perverse.
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Houses in Motion
On ‘Relic’ and ‘Swallow,’ two horror releases you might have missed this year.
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‘From Beyond’: Not Quite as Good as ‘Re-Animator’
But even if ‘From Beyond’ doesn’t really work, it’s hard to outrightly dislike.
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‘Ichi the Killer’ Gets Old Fast
There comes a moment where we realize that it might be better for our sake to stop engaging and simply leave the room.
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‘The Black Hole’ is Better Than a ‘Star Wars’ Ripoff
It’s still a failure, but it’s an interesting failure.
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‘Mad Love’ Finds Peter Lorre at the Peak of His Powers
This is a horror movie that delights in the macabre as much as a comedy luxuriates in a good laugh.
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On ‘Viy’
Based on an 1800s horror novella by Nikolai Gogol, ‘Viy’ is frightening in a what-if-this-happened-to-me kind of way.
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‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ Wouldn’t Amount to Much Without Peter Lorre
‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ is also frequently touted as the very first film-noir movie on account of its story and visual style.
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