With unflagging honesty and compassion, Clay Tweel's documentary Gleason charts the journey of former New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason as he copes with th
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Anna Gunn actually gets to do things in Meera Menon's expansive high-finance drama Equity, which is almost reason enough to recommend it right there. The Breakin
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Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn't a misogynist and didn't hate women because he spent all his time thinking about fucking them. But he did conced
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Barbara Kopple's Miss Sharon Jones!?tells the kind of true story that makes you want to kick creation itself square in the crotch. Here's that firecracker so
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Brady Corbet has emerged as the face of millennial malaise on the strength of roles in films including?Simon Killer, Clouds of Sils Maria and Melancholia, but what h
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Can We Take a Joke? is a surprisingly self-righteous and unfunny documentary in which shelf-dated comedians spend 74 minutes misinterpreting the First Amendment to m
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Jack Pettibone Riccobono's The Seventh Fire opens on dark, grainy footage of a highway at dusk before cutting to an overhead shot of a long stretch of forest, and th
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Garry Marshall is gone, and his passing may have many wondering if all our happy days are behind us. But the magic of Garry Marshall was that the happy days never ex
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Like the real 1980s, Stranger Things gets more unsettling as it goes. The opening episode of the Netflix show, created by the Duffer Brothers, gives us swear-y, scr
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Does it matter that Freddy Krueger was a pedophilic middle-school janitor who died in a blazing fire when parents sought revenge? No. And unless you're a horror-film
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Twenty-five years ago, Annie Leibovitz stunned America with her infamous portrait of Demi Moore ? nude, bronzed, seven months pregnant ? on the cover of Vanity Fair.
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Catherine Corsini's lovely, sultry Summertime, a 1971-set tale about two women of different ages and class backgrounds who fall in love, celebrates erotic abandon bu
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