Film
Beyond its engaging plot and the tour de force performances by Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter is a gorgeous and sure-handed work of cinema.
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This is a fresh take on a teen sex comedy: someone who worships logic sets out to explore the complexity of sexuality.
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Director Lana Wachowski seems less interested in telling a coherent story with fleshed out characters than she is in aggressively commenting on how we’re trapped in a cycle of reboots and remakes with no end in sight.
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The knee-jerk, hateful reviews of Don’t Look Up possess comments so outsized, and so beside the point, that they bear a resemblance to the oblivious thinking of the movie’s anti-science ostriches.
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The documentary supplies plenty of deserved admiration for its haggard but gentle subject, but it doesn’t tell us enough about the enduring value of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing.
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The Velvet Queen, elegantly directed by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier, is a vivid chronicle of an arduous journey, old-fashioned but visually high-tech.
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With Nightmare Alley, Guillermo del Toro once again proves to be an unparalleled cinematic visionary whose commitment to craftsmanship continues to amaze.
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This list consists of recent music documentaries that I streamed over the past year — a couple of duds as well as the standouts.
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Here is my list of the 5 best music documentaries from the past year that you could/can watch on the boob tube.
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Arts Remembrance: Film Critic Michael Wilmington — A Memory
Remembering film critic Michael Wilmington, a unique guy, and friend, whom I knew for 53 years.
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