Damn it, I don't know how to feel about Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. In the playwright turned feature writer-director's 2012 film Sev
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Gilbert Gottfried's nasally obnoxiousness has wormed its way in (and out) of America's hearts for decades ? through his stand-up comedy, his voice-acting work as Ala
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It's not enough that the sitting president will hate Rob Reiner's LBJ, but that's not nothing, either. Here's a portrait of a resolutely unlovable vulgarian who, due
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My Friend Dahmer, from a graphic memoir of the same name by the pseudonymous Derf Backderf, is a kind of coming-of-age tale that dissects a troubled kid's descent in
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Despite the many troubling trends in our media culture, the movies' response to the Iraq War has been (gasp) surprisingly admirable. Since the mid-2000s, a steady st
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Researchers recently set out to take a snapshot of writers and showrunners and the portrayal of immigrants in television, and the results aren't pretty.
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Watching movies for a living is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it, and our film critics are up to the task. While they see plenty of stellar movies, they
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Julia Solomonoff's third feature finds the accomplished Argentine director in a naturalistic year-in-the-life mode, examining the somewhat aimless expatriate life of
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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, BPM (Beats Per Minute), French director Robin Campillo's stylized, moving drama of AIDS activism
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It's hard to imagine wanting to watch 11/8/16 today. The film, a sweeping survey documentary created and produced by Jeff Deutchman, follows 16 Americans from across
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It's November! Which means that we've almost survived this year and I think that calls for a little celebration. How should we celebrate? Probably with lots of liquo
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The prankish promise of Ugis Olte and Morten Traavik's new doc Liberation Day the film revealing what happened behind the scenes when the winkingly militarist Slove
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