Clay Staub's directorial debut, Devil's Gate, is a slick horror/sci-fi flick that, from the first scene, demonstrates with its gorgeous cinematography that you're in
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Friday, Jan. 5To each his own Blade Runner. Of the seven different cuts of Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction landmark known to exist, the most esteemed is the
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The day you first hear Chavela Vargas is the best day you'll have that year. A majestic and inimitable performer, and a lesbian trailblazer of gender nonconformity,
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Friday, Dec. 29Ready for 2017 to be over and done? There are worse ways to finish out a grim and grueling year than to indulge in some of the funniest films America
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Epic and intimate, surveying nothing less than the breadth of creation and the first spark of new love, the opening reel of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1
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In his ensemble family drama Happy End, Michael Haneke imagines a kind of alternate-world version of the 2012 earnest heartbreaker Amour, which won him the Academy
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Aaron Sorkin can be accused, rightfully, of many things in his work ? dialogue for the sake of dialogue, preposterous political diatribes, ceaseless nods to his hero
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Character actor Conrad Brooks, who attained film immortality (of a sort) by appearing as a bumbling cop in worst director? Ed Wood's legendarily inept sci-fi-horror
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While watching Michael Gracey's carefully sanitized P.T. Barnum biopic musical The Greatest Showman, I kept thinking of other titles the film could have had: Dancing
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One of the great films about childhood and life during wartime, Claude Berri's piquant, piercing debut, The Two of Us (1967), also stands ? despite its highly person
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Since his low-key, low-expectations debut, the Jeff Bridges diversion Crazy Heart (2009), Scott Cooper has specialized in thoughtful, actor-driven, for-adults Hollyw
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Saturday, Dec. 23The holiday spirit reaches its cinematic apotheosis with a screening of It's a Wonderful Life. Written off as Christmas corn for too long, Frank
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