I want to make something clear: Horror, as a genre, does not necessitate joylessness. Directors who don't discern this tend to produce movies that some critics have
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Belgian crime drama The Ardennes is predictably tense and violent, but its aesthetic pleasures are considerable. Director Robin Pront plays a lot of familiar notes b
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It's a question the movies ask again and again: How should a person grieve? In Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson's slow-burn pseudo-mystery Claire in Motion, a t
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The Bad Kids of Crestview Academy is a sequel, and if you're asking yourself, Of what?? you're not alone. Just add to that the question of: Why?? The original low-bu
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New year, new us! JK, new year, same ol' us: watching TV and hiding in a hole from the bitter January cold and impending doom. The only solution? Watching all the te
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In the '80s and '90s, there were action movies. They starred muscly guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone, or martial artists from Jean-Claude Van Da
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Almost all of the history of American movies flows into Steven Spielberg, and the movies that have come since can't help but be in response. As a storyteller and
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Charlie Chaplin once stated, The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. Statements like this ??
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There are many good and great movies that feature L.A. as both a setting and a character. This is not that list. These are the films that completely miss the point a
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For 75 years, the United States has dominated the production of World War II action comedies. There's Spielberg's 1941 (1979), Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in Operatio
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Once upon a time, in the dark ages of not-that-long-ago, foreign television was a mysterious land beyond our reach. Aside from the occasional British import, the won
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What does it take for a woman to win the trust it takes to become an action director? For Anna Foerster, it took two decades, an expert's knowledge of visual effects
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