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No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.
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More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm, from McCabe & Mrs. Miller to The Music Lovers and Walkabout.
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Mexico City settles on Columbus’ replacement, but finds that removal and substitution is agonizing in society which hasn’t changed all that much.
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
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Fans will be pleased that time around director Wes Anderson has shot off everything in his stylistic quiver.
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At the very least, Ionesco’s drama about the unreality of the world should produce shudders as well as chuckles.
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Jacques Cousteau’s journey, from wannabe pilot to protector of the seas, is chronicled in a new documentary.
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Syfy’s latest iteration of the killer doll remains as campy and violent as ever.
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The Sum of Us shows how the economic and political powers-that-be have exploited race to split Americans into warring tribes trapped in a zero-sum game fighting for what’s left after the top 1% take 40% of the wealth.
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Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”
Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.
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