Tag: september 2021
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Cooking Dreams
‘Tampopo’ is a touching, fancifully funny movie shot with great original style.
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‘Museo’ Smartly Rejiggers the Heist Movie
The film tries to stay planted in real life; it’s grounded by its convincingly co-dependent lead performances and Ruizpalacios’s measured and thoughtful approach to what is outwardly a too-wild-to-be-true curiosity of a story.
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Smoke Screens
On ‘The Nowhere Inn’ and ‘Prisoners of the Ghostland.’
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‘Taste of Cherry’ is Simple and Complicated
The jarring meta finale may seem playful — from a pessimistic perspective even a copout — but I think it’s wise.
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‘The Straight Story’ is a Surprisingly Sweet Effort from David Lynch
I’ll admit that I teetered on the verge of tears for almost all of ‘The Straight Story.’
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‘The Loneliest Planet’ Upends the End-of-a-Relationship Movie
The movie isn’t about who these people are, but how they respond to the unexpected.
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‘Road to Morocco’ Has You Had-to-Be-There-Itis
This is a movie whose comedy feels distinctly 1942.
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Clouds
On ‘The Card Counter’ and ‘Malignant.’
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Detours
On ‘Bad Education.’
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Yes, No, Maybe
On ‘Ema’ and ‘No.’
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Dark Pasts
On ‘Candyman’ and ‘The Night House.’
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The Keyed-Up Horrors of ‘Amores Perros’
You’re never at ease while watching it — almost everything about it is assaultive.
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