This sadistic pulp-revisionist Western starts so well that you might feel something like loss as it ends: The Duel could have been something. The opening is all evo
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Here's an experiment. Tonight, after midnight, haul yourself out of bed and into the street and, for a minute or two, scream bloody murder. What would happen? Wo
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If we can credit any director with upholding the legacy of Hong Kong crime cinema in the age of American action-movie dominance, it's Johnnie To. Unlike contemporari
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Looking back at the '90s, for reasons that only Kurt Loder and?Clarissa Darling may be able to explain, it isn't so much nostalgia that rekindles our fondnes
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Finding Nemo may have been a cartoon about a clownfish traveling across the ocean looking for his son, but it was also one of Pixar's first overt forays into the
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In a stark white room, four boys huddle on a mattress, addressing the camera. They're athletic, the picture of youth and every Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. A blond b
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Teenage bodies are bared but fresh insight concealed in writer-director Eva Husson's first feature, a dopey examination of Instagram-abetted adolescent abandon.Inspi
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Dylan Reeve and David Farrier's Tickled might be the oddest documentary you'll see this year. It starts off with Farrier, a New Zealand TV reporter specializing in
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The white-dude detective of Nordic best-sellers bears a burden other crime-solvers don't. Besides his personal troubles ? he's usually a sauced mope estrange
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The father of?Orlando shooter?Omar Mateen had an L.A.-based television show about Afghan politics.Seddique Mateen hosted the Durand Jirga Show on the?Payam e Afghan
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Octave Mirbeau's The Diary of a Chambermaid, a 1900 novel about the depravities in all social strata written from the point of view of a servant named C?lestine, has
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In Anna Rose Holmer's The Fits, emotion becomes motion and psychology becomes space. It's a coming-of-age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard stor
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