One year, back in the early 1990s, an uncle of mine didn't show up to our family Christmas. I was only 10 and didn't understand his sudden departure and why nobody w
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This piece has spoilers for the first six episodes of the second season of Stranger Things.Look, I like the show, but the title is a lie. Seemingly inspired by that
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Like most of the better Marvel efforts, Thor: Ragnarok feels like the work of a unique sensibility instead of a huddle of brand managers. While the studio's films de
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Francis Lee's stark, striking God's Own Country is one of several significant films this year to depict hard-edged men softening, opening up, finding the courage to
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Maggie Betts' Novitiate bears all the signs of an exceptional talent. It follows the experiences of Cathleen (Margaret Qualley), a teenager who enters a convent in t
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South Park airs on Comedy Central. Last year, just days after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone told a reporter
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A few weeks ago I interviewed Tom Holland, director of the iconic 1988 killer-doll horror movie Child's Play, and I let it slip that I'd watched the movie ar
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This fall, mainstream films are subverting expectations all over the place. Darren Aronofsky's mother! proved too much for some audiences looking for a moody drama,
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Ruben ??stlund's The Square, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this past May, probably says more about the times we're living in than any other film you're likely t
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Maybe it's encouraging, in a way, that an America in crisis struggles so mightily to make crowd-pleasing war movies.Whatever his politics, no studio exec today w
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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold premieres Oct. 27 on Netflix. Joan Didion has set an impossible standard for any documentarian who would want to cover her life
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In the opening shot of Only the Brave, a flaming bear ? not just a bear that happens to be burning but one that looks as if it had been created entirely from fire ?
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