A capital clip job, this brain-tickling cine-essay examines how last century's mass-media technology ? telephones, radio, moving pictures ? altered our minds, o
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No sentence distills the essence of one strain of cinephilia ? mine especially ? better than this one: Motion pictures are for people who like to watch women. Braci
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George Lucas is the L. Ron Hubbard of Hollywood. Both men were sci-fi dreamers turned mega-millionaires who spun their pulp adventures into a religion. Tap the power
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Here's the statistical quirk that sums up Mad Max: Fury Road's sensational greatness: Seventy-three of the 127 critics voting in our annual poll picked Geor
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Tear through 2015's best nonfiction films and you'll see the great range of the modern documentary: the straightforward brilliance of the political history Best of E
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What's quietly revolutionary about Sisters is that it's a dumb-party movie like a million others. The hosts score booze, invite over dozens of friends and f
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Here's to Quentin Tarantino's cussed perversity. The Hateful Eight, his intimate, suspenseful, Western splatter-horror comedy, has been shot at great expens
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Here's a true story about a St. Louis murder that changed America. In 1837, a black freeman named Francis McIntosh stepped off a Mississippi riverboat and blund
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How good was 2015 for movies? My first draft of a top 10 was a staggering top 30. I had to make some agonizing cuts and punt by giving documentaries their own sideba
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How did countercultural phenomenon Mystery Science Theater 3000, the inspired '90s science-fiction puppet TV show about watching and ribbing schlocky movies, bec
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When The Mindy Project debuted in 2012, one of its two main inspirations, the big-screen romantic comedy, was already dead. Kate Hudson's last studio rom-com (S
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