Arriving in Tel Aviv, Michael Green (John Benjamin Hickey), a 56-year-old American travel writer, finds the apartment he's arranged to sublet still occupied by its o
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George A. Romero's The Amusement Park may be the most viscerally effective educational film ever made. Shot on a shoestring budget in three days in the early 1970s,
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An influential music figure gets his due this month on PBS, which airs the special Sergio Mendes & Friends: A Celebration, chronicling the life of the Brazilian
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In the opening scene of Undine, a woman threatens to kill her lover if he leaves her. Thanks to the intensity of her delivery, we believe it. The woman is played by
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In the Heights was shot before the COVID-19 era, but there might not be a better movie to see in theaters as we attempt to move past the pandemic. Written and produc
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Treason is an ugly thing ? it sullies both the traitor and those betrayed. Turncoats must lie, of necessity, spreading misinformation, fanning grievances and hatred,
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It's hard to pinpoint when exactly Disney's villains became more interesting than their princesses, but somewhere along the way the company's marketing geniuses figu
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For a show that was always very clear about who it was for and what it was about, The Friends Reunion (which premiered last night on HBO Max) was pretty all over the
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Trading in mindless slashers and supernatural menaces with something altogether more pathological and inventive, the SAW franchise provided a ravaging new direction
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At this point, the name Zack Snyder signifies something very specific. Mostly, overly-violent, overtly operatic spectacles. We know there will be a hunky movie star
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In the first few minutes of the new thriller The Woman in the Window, there's a fleeting image of Jimmy Stewart from Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 masterpiece, Rear Window
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Taylor Sheridan has made an indelible career out of reinventing the Western. Though his stories take place in the modern era, his protagonists tend to possess famili
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