Like the Juggernaut or St. Patrick's Day drunks, nothing can stop the hundreds of hours of filmed superhero junk that hits our faceholes each year. But rest easy
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Take heart, Newsroom fans. If you were hankering for more scenes of Jeff Daniels standing around talking, you'll find an unlikely ally in the new young-adult sci-fi
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That light-gray Glen plaid suit, topped with a bright red bowtie and white kicks. That precociously naive predilection for absurdly oversized or miniaturized househ
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In Arnaud Desplechin's My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument, intimate relations with Marion Cotillard lead one character to a spiritual awakening. Later, pro
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Here's a minor miracle. From tiny Lighthouse Pictures, which specializes in Hallmark Channel originals with Christmas in the title, comes Bob Nelson's The Co
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The Pee-wee Productions logo that kicks off the new Netflix film Pee-wee's Big Holiday trumpets comedian-turned-actor Paul Reubens' comeback as the formerly
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The seemingly stark divide between sleep and wakefulness serves as the main motif in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendor, which allegorizes the hist
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In Jeff Nichols' gripping domestic thriller Take Shelter, Michael Shannon played a family man convinced that Armageddon was upon us. But even as the character's visi
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You've seen a lot of movies like Too Late, and yet you haven't. Shot over several years on 35mm, Dennis Hauck's neo-noir detective drama is only being shown theatric
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Brash yet intimate, writer-director-editor Trey Edward Shults' observant, unnerving first feature transcends the notion of a promising debut. Here, the promise i
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It's dusk and Huey Lewis & the News' Power of Love? is playing as Marty McFly skateboards into a blue-collar, suburban neighborhood, passing between two distinct mar
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For the protagonists of cable dramas, sex and death are twin forces of titillation, pressure valves for frustrated middle-aged men or steely-eyed careerists. That's
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