Tag: Review
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Ordinary People
‘Death of a Unicorn’ and ‘Bob Trevino Likes It,’ reviewed.
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‘Max, My Love’ Could Stand to Be Sillier
This preposterously plotted comedy plays things a little too straight.
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The Everyday Brutality of ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’
On Robert Bresson’s account of a donkey’s hard life.
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‘Kedi’: A Charming, Easygoing Love Letter to Cats
The straightforward 2016 documentary gets to know Istanbul’s eye-poppingly large stray-cat population.
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The Seductive Spy Games of ‘Black Bag’
Plus: ‘Eephus’ is a quietly touching baseball movie.
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The Thoughtful Pessimism of ‘White Dog’
Samuel Fuller’s American swan song is characteristically sharp and cynical.
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‘The Cassandra Cat’ Feels Effortlessly Magical
On an affably strange 1963 comedy.
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‘Mickey 17’: Bong Joon Ho’s Goofy Sci-Fi Follow-Up to ‘Parasite’
Plus: Art imitates life in Atom Egoyan’s ‘Seven Veils.’
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The Family That Stays Together
‘The Monkey’ and ‘Vermiglio,’ reviewed.
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‘Antiporno’’s Productive Unsexiness
Sion Sono’s sui-generis 2016 feature abrasively and abstractly critiques the cultural and cinematic limitations — particularly as they relate to sexual expression — placed on women.
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‘Lisa’ is a Hidden Slasher-Movie Gem
The lived-in mother-daughter relationship at the center of co-writer and director Gary Sherman’s 1990 movie eclipses its conventional slasher-movie B plot.
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Short Takes: ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,’ ‘Universal Language,’ and ‘Paddington in Peru’
For South Sound: New movies from Michael Morris, Matthew Rankin, and Dougal Wilson, reviewed.
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