Tag: Review
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‘Creepshow’: An Anomalously Solid Horror-Anthology Movie
All efficiently capitalize on fairly all-inclusive fears and sprinkle in some nihilism and black humor for good measure.
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Maggie Cheung Gives One of Her Best Performances in ‘Center Stage’
But the movie is made shakier because of its distrait presentation.
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Private Eyes
‘Claire’s Camera’ is an epigrammatic 69 minutes, yet its short running time isn’t synonymous with sketchiness or lazy economy.
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On ‘Amazing Grace’
At the center of this church, Aretha Franklin creates not just a feeling of home and unity but announces herself as the closest thing to a divine being personified in that place and that moment.
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Julianne Moore is Sublime in ‘Gloria Bell’
Moore, giving one of the great performances of her great-performance-heavy career, inspires such empathy that there came a point in the movie where I noticed that my facial expressions almost exactly matched the ones she was giving on screen.
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The Leisurely Darkness of ‘The Beach Bum’
Considering everything that happens to Moondog, the protagonist of ‘The Beach Bum,’ over the course of a season, we find it surprising that there never comes a point where we find him sitting down, hunched over with his head in his hands, moaning, ‘the world’s out to get me.’
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‘The Decline of Western Civilization’ Evocatively Captures a Moment
Much would change by the time ‘The Decline of Western Civilization,’ premiered in the summer of 1981.
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‘Three … Extremes’ Lives Up to Its Title
On an inspired horror-anthology movie.
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‘Black Sunday’ is an Early Masterpiece from Mario Bava
‘Black Sunday’ looks so incredible that it immediately becomes a horror masterstroke in a purely aesthetic sense.
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