While Sebastian Lelio's Foreign-Language Oscar win this year for A Fantastic Woman?marked him as a Hollywood hot prospect, his first English-language film, Disobedi
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Lucrecia Martel's films have always contended with colonialism, but through the Argentine director's characteristically elliptical style. In her acclaimed Salta Tri
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Friday, April 27UCLA's tribute to Ida Lupino concludes with a classic film noir double feature. The Hitch-Hiker is a tense B-thriller recently restored by the Li
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We can say this much for Thanos. For the greatest villain in all the universe ? a tyrant whose chin might be lumps of grape mashed potatoes scored with a fork to res
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The good news is that Per Fly's Backstabbing for Beginners, a film about bad news, is not at all the cynical farce its title suggests. Instead, Fly's dramatization
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What exactly is duck butter?? may be the first question you have. It's in the same vein of lewdness as Nicki Minaj's Truffle Butter? (if you don't know, go ahead an
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Sometimes what makes or breaks a horror anthology is its frame. Does the story tying together the ghastly tales elegantly connect the narratives, or is it unfocused
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Friday, April 20Noir City heads into its final weekend of classic crime movies with a humdinger of a Joseph Losey triple feature. The Prowler, which premiered at the
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Immersive, involving, sometimes revelatory, sometimes curiously naive, on occasion thuddingly obvious, Joao Moreira Salles' found-footage study of revolutionaries in
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Cannabis aficionados know from experience that smoking a doobie makes everything better; food, sex, everything. That's especially true of movies where the colors ar
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At the time I made the film The Exorcist, I had never seen an exorcism, notes director William Friedkin at the start of The Devil and Father Amorth, a just-barely f
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Will Robinson. Dr. Smith. The Robot. Anyone who ever watched the 1960s Lost in Space TV series remembers those names and characters. Based loosely on the classic ch
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