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Pledge is Daniel Robbins’ third film, and his first really good one.
This hardscrabble crime thriller is also a powerfully subtle character study.
The Criterion Collection will start its own streaming service early next year, and signups for charter membership have commenced.
Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year. .
Where do you go once you’ve watched the classic Xmas films? Some suggestions.
Films like Ben is Back will not foster an understanding of how drug addiction ravages the lives of the poor, the incarcerated, the uneducated, and the less fortunate.
Roma is Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous, neorealist ode to his formative years growing up in ’70s Mexico City, and to the housekeeper he took for granted as she carried him through that tumultuous decade.
It’s as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.
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 Feature: More Top Movies of 2018
We need Blindspotting. It’s an eye-opening, indispensable film, and the year’s crowning artistic achievement.
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