Anyone who's been watching movies over the past three decades should know who Heather Graham is. She was Lorraine, Jon Favreau's new, life-affirming love in
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You may wonder, as The Young Karl Marx unfolds, just why the filmmakers would build to the drafting of the work that would break the old world pretty much the same
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Mark Pellington's contemplative fugue Nostalgia might have been called Stuff or Inheritance. An episodic ensemble drama organized around the logic of theme rather t
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Friday, Feb. 16The American Cinematheque salutes Studio Ghibli ? the venerable Tokyo animation house responsible for a number of animated masterpieces ? with a 35mm
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When Sally Potter's 1983 sophomore feature, Gold Diggers, finally came to the United States in 1988, Janet Maslin writing for The New York Times called the experime
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Once upon a time, back when the Talking Heads were still together and we had a president who was merely senile, we used to love movies like Double Lover. It was as
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Let's get this out of the way: Nick Park's caveman-centric animated feature Early Man is actually about soccer. Or football, depending which side of the pond you're
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A certain socially conscious apprehension can come with popular art that's expected to be groundbreaking or revolutionary. Black Panther arrives freighted with
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There are many taboos explored in Ali Soozandeh's animated Tehran Taboo, not the least of which is the taboo against filming movies in Tehran about things that are t
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Fifty Shades Freed is not a sexy movie. James Foley's adaptation of the final installment in E.L. James' trilogy of novels does have at least four fully rea
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A v?rit? masterpiece of the bullshit that America sells itself, Albert and David Maysles' Salesman, from 1968, documents a way of life that was dying even then ? the
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Friday, Feb. 9UCLA's tribute to Michael Curtiz (prompted by the release of Alan K. Rode's new biography) continues with one of the studio director's most famous: Mi
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