A couple of caveats: First, these are my favorite movies of the year, not a claim to rank the definitive best, so don't write to tell me that your favorite shou
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What this year lacked in civility and sanity, it made up for in movies. And thank God. Because in the year of "let's be legends," we needed a little bit of anyth
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The slippery slow-burn psychological thriller Kaleidoscope is powered by a fusion of two elements ? a female corpse and a disturbed mother-son relationship ? that im
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Here's a film in which excellent actors play fascinating people in interesting situations that somehow, in their adaptation?from real life to memoir (by Peter Turner
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Watching November Criminals, Sacha Gervasi's plunge into high-school ennui and intrigue, I couldn't help but wonder: Fuck, are we still making kids read The?Catcher
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Friday, Dec. 8 The American Cinematheque is indulging in some classic counterprogramming for the Christmas season. Celebrate the Yuletide with a holiday horror tripl
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Craig Gillespie's raucous Tonya Harding biopic, I, Tonya, could have been made for me. As a kid, I had aligned with Harding ? she looked like the America I knew, the
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One of the greatest living guitarists, improvisers and bandleaders receives a fittingly humble tribute in Emma Franz's loose and personable Bill Frisell: A Portrait.
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Everybody in my neighborhood that I know of in the last 40 years died from cancer, says a resident of Crossett, Arkansas, at a public hearing captured in Natalie Kot
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James and Dave Franco sit across from me, shoved into the back corner of an echo-y Four Seasons meeting room. It's 5 p.m., and before we begin talking about thei
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If narrative art works best through suggestion ? by making its points indirectly, by teasing and prompting us to discover meaning for ourselves ? then the modern fam
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In his tranquil drama Princess Cyd, director Stephen Cone seems to be asking the question: What if a movie featured a girl who lived through unthinkable trauma and s
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