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Film Review: “Pledge” — Lambdas to the Slaughter

January 12, 2019
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Pledge is Daniel Robbins’ third film, and his first really good one.

Film Review: “Destroyer” — A Jolting Ride

January 11, 2019
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This hardscrabble crime thriller is also a powerfully subtle character study.

Film Feature: More Top Movies of 2018

December 30, 2018
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We need Blindspotting. It’s an eye-opening, indispensable film, and the year’s crowning artistic achievement.

Film Feature: Best of the 2018 Criterion Collection Crop

December 30, 2018
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The Criterion Collection will start its own streaming service early next year, and signups for charter membership have commenced.

Film Feature: Best Movies of 2018 — With a Few Disappointments

December 28, 2018
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Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year. .

WATCH CLOSELY: Sabrina’s Solstice, and Other Dark Seasonal Gems

December 23, 2018
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Where do you go once you’ve watched the classic Xmas films? Some suggestions.

Film Review: “Ben is Back” — Raising an Addict

December 15, 2018
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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.

Film Review: “Roma” — A Soulful Masterpiece

December 14, 2018
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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.

Film Commentary: A Critical Dichotomy — Time to Resolve It

December 11, 2018
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It’s as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.

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.

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