Solid rule of thumb: Never accept strawberries from strangers on the street, no matter how good-looking the fruit or well-spoken the unknown person. But maybe that's
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I can't ensure I will not be disappeared in the future, Joshua Wong says, deep into Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, Joe Piscatella's rousing, terrifying thriller of
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Imagine you're a producer for a small(ish)-town morning show and you get an email from someone named Jerry Chubb pitching a segment about his clients, a strongma
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With his bow-legged power-walk, low-boil narcissism and tough-guy snarl, Brad Pitt is the comic ghost in David Michod's all-too-real War Machine. The film, which is
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In the run-up to this year's festival, Bong Joon-ho's Okja was one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Selection lineup. Now that people have seen it, Okja
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In Robin Swicord's Wakefield, an adaptation of the late E.L. Doctorow's short story of the same name, disillusioned lawyer Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston)
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Don't expect Amir Bar-Lev's Long Strange Trip, a sweeping if not very penetrating look at the 30-year career of the Grateful Dead, to offer major revelations. For an
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When director Ana Lily Amirpour showed up to Jim Carrey's art studio, she wore a pillowcase over her head, featuring two cut-out eyeholes and a Sharpie frownie
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Yes, there's spoilers below for this unspoilable show.Don't let yourself be hurt this time, sings Julee Cruise on Falling, the plushly minimalist 1989 synth ball
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Pour one out for the summer movie season, which was once Memorial Day until Labor Day but now has spread like a self-replicating, geometrically evolving A.I. determi
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Yes, dead men tell no tales ? but neither, really, do the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.Rather than stories, the series, of which this 2017 entry is the fifth, off
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Who knew Cate Blanchett wanted to be Tracey Ullman? That's probably not the reaction director Julian Rosefeldt hopes will be stirred by this rigorous series of m
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