Most hero stories dating back to Achilles are fantasies of power, of the world made right through violence. What sets Spider-Man apart, outside his joyous bouncing t
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Asked late in his presidency how his background in Hollywood might have proved useful in his last and longest public performance, that beaming septuagenarian Ronald
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Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues has called The Ornithologist, which follows a lone bird expert in a remote northern part of the country, an adventure film.
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You can't expect a storyteller to wring much suspense out of a real-life plot to assassinate Hitler. In the case of Georg Elser, the subject of Oliver Hirschbiegel's
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In the runup to this year's Cannes Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho's Okja was one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Then, after people ha
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Edgar Wright's Baby Driver is a remorselessly entertaining, impeccably assembled action-musical in which cars and people defy the laws of physics and common sense. T
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Amanda Kernell's scrupulously shaped, coming-of-rage drama opens with Christina (Maj-Doris Rimpi), an elderly woman wearing sparkling pearls and a pitiless count
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The House on Coco Road premieres on Netflix on June 30. Quick, tell me everything you know about Grenada. If you're over the age of 35, you probably remember Ronald
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The season finale of RuPaul's Drag Race airs Friday on VH1. The world might feel like a schizophrenic hellscape where every day you find yourself asking, Is this re
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Hollywood has many more outstanding actors than it does outstanding scripts. That's the only way to explain Naomi Watts' career, which launched stateside with a mast
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Queen Sugar airs on OWN.In her Netflix documentary The 13th, director Ava DuVernay traces the criminalization of blackness ? enacted by a white power structure that
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The key word in the title is My. Bertrand Tavernier's three-hours-and-change film essay is not a history lesson. It's an invitation to take a seat next to a
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