In a September interview with GQ, Constance Wu, star of NBC's Fresh Off the Boat, observed of the HBO series Togetherness, It's a show about white people. She's not
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There is precisely one attempted coup de cinema in the Jesse Owens biopic Race, which otherwise defaults to the backlot handsomeness of other Great Men tributes from
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The centerpiece of Hail, Caesar!'s midcentury Hollywood satire is the eponymous film-within-a-film itself, an overwrought biblical epic in which a skeptical Roman ce
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Like so many people who move to L.A. to break into the film industry, Marc Madnick can point to the exact movie that planted stars in his eyes: Back to the Future.
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A laugh comes at last just before the end credits of Robert Eggers' lit-class horror-bummer The Witch: a boastful note attesting to the documentary truthfulness
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A legitimate stunner in that word's truest sense, Colombian director Ciro Guerra's river-trip Embrace of the Serpent mesmerizes and jacks with you, leaving y
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On the surface, there isn't much to object to in How to Be Single. Look, it says! No matter how fabulous their lives may seem, everyone wants to be happier and m
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HBO's Vinyl is the latest in a series of cultural hard-ons for the rough-and-tumble world of pre-Koch NYC: From novels like Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers and Ga
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I've turned into this kind of crazy optimist, Michael Moore admits?in his new documentary Where to Invade Next, his first film in six years. At 61, the gadfly sa
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Grown-ups may wince, but Paul Dalio's earnest, ambitious manic-poet romance Touched With Fire is a gift to the young and passionately creative, to the brains-a-p
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Nearly two years after closing for renovations, Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex has returned, like so many other Los Angeles institutions, with a face lift and a new name. N
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A guy I grew up with had the superpower to make anything dirty. No matter what you'd say to him, he'd manage to make it about his dick, or about anal sex, or
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