Still and silent, Jerry Lewis slumps there like old furniture in the lifeless house in which the first half of Daniel Noah's coming-of-old-age drama Max Rose molders
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Before The Eric Andr? Show came along, I always thought acting like a complete lunatic on television was mostly a white-people thing. As a culture, African-Americans
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Eight minutes into the pilot episode of Cinemax's new crime show Quarry ? an uneven but largely rewarding translation of Max Allan Collins' crime books into emotiona
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Our film critics spent serious time in front of the big screen this month to pick their favorite films of August 2016. If a few haven't opened in a theater near
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Where were you when you learned that you'd be making your DJ debut at the biggest rave of the year? And that said rave was only eight hours away? Ethan, the shee
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Oh my God. Sorry. Gosh. I just can't believe it actually happened. This is an omniscient narrator speaking. Jane the Virgin's Latin Lover Narrator (yes, that is how
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Opening your film on the image of a child plummeting off a cliff, presumably to his death, is a fairly foolproof way to get the audience's attention. And Alexandre A
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In 1982, when Elliott called his older brother Michael penis-breath? while sitting at the kitchen table, we were clearly treading waters outside the saccharine, live
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Tension and release is the driving principle of a tearjerker, where every good fortune is countered by something worse. And as dismissive as critics often are of the
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It's 90 degrees in Huntington Park and Hulk Hogan is on the radio. Here in my air-conditioned car parked outside the Wrestling Guy Store, the Hulkster is cuttin
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Don't ever make the mistake of dismissing James Ivory's E.M. Forster adaptation Howards End as a mere costume drama. Yes, the characters wear corsets and evening sui
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Like the rambling fixer-upper at its heart, Merchant Ivory's Howards End has aged quite well, and not just because of the brightened-up 4K restoration from Cohen
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