Imagine a 2018 Robin Hood done right: a real wealth-redistributing, anti-fascist hero fighting against a rich tyrant who uses political power to only get richer (hm
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Friday, Nov. 23The American Cinematheque purchased a newly struck 70mm print of Lawrence of Arabia from Sony last fall with the intention of exhibiting it a few time
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Hard-edged and harrowed, Rosamund Pike is magnificent in A Private War, the story of Marie Colvin, the behind-the-frontlines war reporter for England's Sunday Times
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For all their triumphant simplicity, the original Rocky and the original Creed were what we used to just call movies, by which I mean Hollywood underdog fables told
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Any concern that an elegantly mounted, star-studded period piece set during the War of Spanish Succession might have diluted Greek surrealist Yorgos Lanthimos' part
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Thanksgiving. A time for family, food and neighborly love, when we celebrate and emulate our gracious forefathers who came together with Native Americans to share a
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The opening sequence of Alfonso Cuarón's autobiographical Roma is oddly soothing, evoking a response similar to YouTube's popular ASMR videos, where the focus is a
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Maybe you're the type of person who sees a precocious, media-savvy teen phenom like chef Flynn McGarry on TV or the cover of a magazine and thinks Good for him? or
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs premieres Nov. 16 on Netflix. The Coen brothers began their career writing tight narratives that feverishly chugged along, pulling thei
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In early?2012, as the regime of Bashar al-Assad rained bombs on civilians in the Syrian city of Baba Amr, war photographer Paul Conroy found himself refusing to lea
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Friday, Nov. 16Believe it or not, Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of the only authentic Thanksgiving movies, and the season would be poorer without it. A John
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It's been a hot minute since we've had a cute racism movie like Green Book, which wowed audiences at this year's Toronto Film Festival to the point where it won the
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