Almost 50 years have passed since All in the Family's Edith Bunker was the victim of an attempted rape on primetime television.Edith's 50th Birthday? was a groundbre
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One reason Isabelle Huppert makes suffering so compelling onscreen is her sheer ? well, unflappability isn't quite the right word. It's a kind of ironic distance
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Here's a recurring nightmare I've had since seeing Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother: I'm parking my car ? I don't even have a car ? on a desolate street in broa
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In the pantheon of American first ladies, Jacqueline Kennedy was no Eleanor Roosevelt. She didn't push for policy, didn't relinquish her pillbox hat to walk among th
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Nice girls play by the rules. They turn their shoulders inward and nibble on the ends of their slim fingers, nervous about all those difficult thoughts in their head
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Look, Shia LaBeouf was approximately the 27th worst thing in that last Indiana Jones movie, and his intense-yet-distracted turns in the Transformers series aren'
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Miss Sloane opens with a clever gambit: Jessica Chastain's face fills the screen in a tight close-up as she talks about strategy, breaking the fourth wall. From the
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Saroo Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home examines, in its uncertain prose, one of the signal concerns of our age: How do those of us who have grown up in relative
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Now that the white-conservative-male-id-made-flesh has been elected president, many of us left-coast liberal crybabies are dreading heading home for the holidays an
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There's a grand concept to Seasons, the mostly terrestrial animal-observation doc from the creators of Winged Migration and Oceans, but in practice the film, a b
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When last we saw Howard Hughes onscreen, Leonardo DiCaprio was repeating the way of the future ad infinitum as he gazed into the mirror. Warren Beatty's long-in-
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Watching Lucile Hadzihalilovic's mesmerizing sci-fi arthouse stunner, Evolution, I thought of the paintings of surrealist Rene Magritte ? a few in particular: The Co
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