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Sentimentality ruins the magic of this otherwise unsettling and actively cruel film
Orson Welles’s ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ and Morgan Neville’s ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’
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Eddie Perfect goes to Broadway
The Australian composer has two musicals – ‘Beetlejuice’ and ‘King Kong’ – opening in New York
A bigger, shinier cage: Julia Holter’s ‘Aviary’
A classically schooled composer seeks shelter from the cacophony of modern life
‘The Old Man and the Gun’ and the outlaw Robert Redford
David Lowery’s new film pays too much tribute to the Sundance Kid
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