I Love Dick streams on Amazon starting Friday, May 12. I Love Dick, the epistolary novel, is an obsessive confessional story from a woman ? a version of the author,
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The true heart of Michael Mann's Heat is revealed a little more than an hour into the film. No, I'm not talking about the classic coffee conversation between Robert
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If nothing else, Alien: Covenant is the most ambitious Alien film ever made. It's almost as if Ridley Scott, foiled in his recent attempts at biblical epics, metaphy
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Steve Coogan is at a fancy dinner, but he's not doing any Michael Caine impressions. Instead, he's brooding with resentment of his workaholic congressman brother, St
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However you look at Julian Assange ? radical hero, martyr, Trumpist sellout, probable rapist, victim of his cult of personality ? there's something in Laura Poitras'
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When Anthony Anderson was 9 years old, he saw his mother rehearsing for a production of A Raisin in the Sun at a community college in Compton. I'll never for
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A committed (and controversial) performance from Elle Fanning as a high school kid born Ramona ? but identifying as Ray ? is diced up and short-shrifted in this mudd
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It's May, and we're all still standing! Thank you, television! I was gonna add that May is looking up, but then I noticed there's a three-hour-long Carpool Karaoke
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Serial Mom is available in a new Blu-ray edition from Shout Factory.John Waters' response to boxes ? the kind in which we tend to place others and ourselves ? is to
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A comedy, and also a tragedy, of remarriage ? without couples counseling or divorce ? writer-director Azazel Jacobs' The Lovers revitalizes its genre with a piquant
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A light and cheery appraisal of a somber subject, Vanessa Gould's documentary Obit focuses on the writers and editors assigned to the necrology desk of The New York
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Dear White People streams on Netflix.For the past half-century, college campuses have served as a primary theater of the culture wars. So it's fitting that one of th
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