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Film Review: “Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes” — Media Mogul, Serial Sociopath

December 9, 2018
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This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.

Film Review: “Shoplifters” — Family Life in the Lower Depths

December 8, 2018
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Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.

Film Review: A Compelling Look at Dieter Rams, Industrial Design Icon at 86

December 6, 2018
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Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.

Film Review: “Becoming Astrid” — An Ode to Perseverance

December 3, 2018
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This is one of the year’s most heartwarming films; it is not sentimental, but projects a profound sense of resilient joy at its heart.

Film Review: “The Favourite” — Hysterical History

November 21, 2018
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The Favourite may be a raucous historical lampoon — but it is a timely one.

Film Review: “Burning” — A Powerful Philosophical Suspense Yarn

November 20, 2018
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Not since Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up and L’Aventura has there been such a mesmerizing tale of the more you look, the less you find out.

Book Review: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth

November 9, 2018
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Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.

Film Review: “Bohemian Rhapsody” — Pure Pleasure

November 7, 2018
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The film captures everything I love about Queen — the outrageousness, the audacity, the bigness of it all.

Film Review: “Wildlife” — The American Dream, Ablaze

November 6, 2018
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This is a sublime little film — an elegantly cross-stitched portrait of an all-American family fracturing under the weight of broken dreams and false promises.

Film Commentary: FilmStruck Untimely Struck Down

October 30, 2018
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Why is the curtain suddenly dropping now on FilmStruck, a vast, diverse, and tastefully curated archive of films spanning the past century and the entire globe.

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