The comforting analog clack of typewriter keys is a leitmotif in Their Finest, Lone Scherfig's slight but appealing adaptation of Lissa Evans' novel Their Finest Hou
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No matter your opinion of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a person, you can't deny this: The man is a doer. And in Elliott Lester's grief drama Aftermath, the ripped Renais
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Two seemingly incongruous categories ? the small-scale romantic doodle and the rampaging-creature feature ? are brought together in Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal, a fil
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It's a sunny Sunday afternoon in Silver Lake and Moshe Kasher is showing me how to buy heroin online. Lounging in a leather armchair in his country-style living
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Life is in the details, and the remarkable yet frustrating eight-part miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan, of which four episodes have aired so far, is at its best when
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This April, let us celebrate the glory of the flowers blossoming in vaginal fashion by only highlighting shows created by women. The list will be shorter than usual
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Ghost in the Shell looks great, sounds great and has a gaping hole at its center ? where its emotional core should be. This big-budget adaptation of the Japanese ma
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The premise for Charlie McDowell's The Discovery is so simple and poetic that it's hard to believe it hasn't been done before: A scientist discovers definitive proof
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Unpromisingly, Five Came Back, a series that surveys the military service of directors Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler ? who cu
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The Boss Baby might look, at first, like any other major studio animation release. Directed by DreamWorks vet Tom McGrath (Madagascar, Megamind), the movie hits all
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The Blackcoat's Daughter opens Friday, March 31 in theaters and on-demand. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House streams on Netflix. When writer-director Osg
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L.P. Hartley's famous proverb, The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there? is literalized in Karl Marx City, a noir-inflected autobiographical e
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