Peg Aloi
Here is what a smart, savvy viewer who likes high-quality entertainment is looking forward to on TV this year.
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Where do you go once you’ve watched the classic Xmas films? Some suggestions.
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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.
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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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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.
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The Other Side of the Wind may inspire brooding melancholy in some, but it’s also pretty damned fine.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs demonstrates the Coens’ consummate skill for reinventing classic genre tropes, dovetailing deep affection with inspired re-interpretation.
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William Goldman was known as a consummate Hollywood insider who nevertheless maintained a reputation as a literary-minded purveyor of exceptional cinema.
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Maniac is mind-bending entertainment that’s also an invitation to muse on infinite possibilities.
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Film Feature: Best Movies of 2018 — With a Few Disappointments
Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year. .
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