Forgiveness is tricky and personal, and you can't be blamed for not offering it. Buying a ticket to Nate Parker's slave-revolt drama The Birth of a Nation de
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There's little in the way of setup or explanation for what the bad batch? is or how the members of such a motley, unfortunate tribe of humans were banished to a dese
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Before you scroll to the bottom and berate me for compiling a pretty good list, but you obviously omitted [fill in the blank]?, here's a bit about the methodology:1.
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Don't resist the temptation to take off your 3-D glasses while watching the Nick Cave concert doc One More Time With Feeling. Without them, as you watch the imag
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We live in an age when we explain everything to death, Darko Tresnjak muses by phone the day before the opening of L.A. Opera's ambitious new production of Macbeth,
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Adults in 2016 know not to feed the trolls. If you have to, though, you need to come on hard and strong, publicly glutting them on so much truth that they just curl
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In the nine years since she was first accused of and jailed for murder ? then exculpated, only to be retried and found guilty again, and finally absolved ? Amanda Kn
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The first moments of Luke Cage offer much that the previous 38 or so hours of Marvel superhero Netflix drama haven't: laughter. Warmth. A sense that the New York
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In American Honey, her 162-minute fourth feature (and the first she's made in the United States), British director Andrea Arnold sets an infatuation-at-first-sig
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Winter is coming ... but Dirty Little Secrets will warm you up with a sendup of HBO's hit series Game of Thrones. It was equal parts parody and thematic
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The conventional wisdom about early-career Tim Burton is that he was an imaginative visual stylist but not a great storyteller. That sounds smart, right? It's still
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Like many songwriters based in L.A., I've had publishing companies offer to discuss deals with me to get my music placed in film and TV soundtracks. Along the way I'
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