Film
What remains so seductive about Almodovar is the way he replicates the movement of thought, creating a seamless weave between the story moving forward — rather minimal in this case — and the richer, more luminous past.
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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles is nothing if not provocative fodder for a cinematic niche: the animated feature sheds intriguing light on one of the major film directors of the 20th century at a pivotal time in his career. ,/em>
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Screenwriter-director Todd Phillips knows well what he is doing in the calculated way he escalates the bloodshed in Joker.
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How is this festival kept off the map from my US colleagues?
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As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger is in a movie that doesn’t match her fine performance.
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Why has Downton Abbey, the film and the series, been so successful? We are given a romanticized vision of essential ‘Britishness,’ a nostalgic version of the class system.
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An attempt to comment on contemporary masculinity, but without enough mind or matter to make much of an impact.
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Three remarkable films that promise a bumper crop of world cinema yet to come at the NY Film Festival.
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This clever Japanese zombie film is a spirited attempt to blow up and reinvigorate the genre.
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Film Reconsideration: The Beats’s “Pull My Daisy” at 60
You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.
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