Film Features
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If things that happen in the first 15 minutes of a movie can still be considered spoilers, then most of this review of François Ozon’s … More »
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Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa gazes into the slums around Lisbon and focuses on the misery of the underclass, especially the immigrant community. Perhaps this insufficient … More »
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It’s impossible to summon any animus against Patricia Clarkson, no matter the quality of her material. Even while playing an angry, jilted, selfish New Yorker … More »
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I think most of us have known a fraudulent charmer like Brooke, though it helps to be young and susceptible to fall under such sway. … More »
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There aren’t many docs or features about mountain climbing, and I suspect I’ve seen them all. As a forcibly retired member of the brotherhood of … More »
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Together, the craggy Robert Redford and Nick Nolte would look eminently plausible on Mount Rushmore, carved between Washington and Lincoln. The problem, in enacting Bill … More »
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Taking most of its plot from Hubert Monteilhet’s 1961 novel Return From the Ashes, the new movie by German filmmaker Christian Petzold feels like something … More »
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Her brand is excellence, as they say, and Meryl Streep doesn’t make many mediocre movies. For that reason, because it’s August—too hot to be critical!—and … More »
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How is it possible that the creator of our beloved, indispensible iPhones was such an asshole? Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) … More »
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With the arrival of this stoner/amnesiac/secret agent action flick, we have officially reached peak Eisenberg. Here playing a hapless West Virginia mini-mart clerk named Mike, … More »
