Don't let the uptick in big-cast movies fool you: Ensemble films are difficult to make.When a script gets a projected budget in creative development, ensemble? adds
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The Hollars tells the familiar tale of a dysfunctional family pulled together by unfortunate circumstances. John Hollar (John Krasinski, who also directed) is a frus
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Critics often dismiss blockbuster entertainments with the vague, half-assed complaint that they resemble video games. Movies like Fede Alvarez's Don't Breath
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Ira Sachs has become one of our great American filmmakers. His newest, Little Men, about two teenage boys (Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri) who become best friends
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In a summer of disappointing reboots, underperforming sequels and rejected franchise bait, Ben-Hur is something rare: a remake no one asked for but weary moviegoers
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Ben Kingsley has spoken many words of wisdom in his lifetime, few more insightful than when he told the Observer earlier this summer that, when a male actor is direc
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In contemporary film, it's typical for an African-American character to be the sole person of color in the story, his or her only reason for existence to reveal hidd
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The central conceit of Imperium ? Daniel Radcliffe playing an FBI agent who goes undercover as a white supremacist ? is laughable, and the film, to its credit, knows
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Natalie Portman proves herself a filmmaker of intelligence, ambition and inventiveness in her debut as a director and writer ? just not one who is always certain as
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Baseball is boring. And I'm saying this as someone who loves and plays the game, as someone who's watched all of Ken Burns' Baseball and as someone who agrees with R
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Michael German went undercover with white supremacists for a year and with right-wing militants for another eight months and now he wants to set some things straight
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Psychic TV has a a new album called Alienist?out next month, but you wouldn't have known that on Friday at the Teragram Ballroom, in the no-person's-land Los Angeles
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