Tag: the classics
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‘Crossing Delancey’ is Like if a Rom-Com Plot Played Out in Real Life
‘Crossing Delancey’ suggests what might happen if the narrative of a romantic-comedy movie were grafted onto life — a place where the genre’s big emotions, plot contrivances, and sudden appearances of soulmates would naturally be a little overwhelming.
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‘Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion’ is an Electrifying Revenge Thriller
This movie has evidently been made by someone who had seen enough women-in-prison movies, enough revenge films, knew what both required/what drew people to them, and realized that you didn’t have to ascribe to their limitations if you knew they could be more.
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More Money, More Problems
On ‘Possessor’ and ‘The Nest.’
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Trouble is My Business
On ‘The Long Goodbye’ and ‘California Split.’
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The Limits and Revelations of ‘Portrait of Jason’
Even through the elision-heavy editing and its subject’s initially, almost defensively romantic storytelling, we see so much.
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‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Cuts Deep
The movie is a semi-autobiographical product of frustration for co-writer and director Robert Townsend.
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‘Atlantics’ is a Mesmerizing Debut from Mati Diop
It will likely not take many more movies for Diop to be included in the pantheon of great filmmakers.
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‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ is a Daring, Mostly Successful Documentary
‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ might make you appreciate life a little more.
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‘First Cow’ is a Tender Tale of Friendship
John Magaro’s and Orion Lee’s performances are perfectly poignant.
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‘Shampoo”s Sober Approach to the Sex Comedy
‘Shampoo’ is unaffected and immediate — unnervingly lifelike.
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‘M’ is Fritz Lang at His Most Assured
Lang has said he made ‘M’ with mostly uncomplicated intentions — that he simply wanted to dissuade parental neglect. But, in hindsight, the movie is clear creative evidence of a man disillusioned.
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‘The Raven’ is the Most Charming of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Series
This is a rambunctious horror-adjacent movie frequently operating at the fever pitch of a farce.
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