The holiday movie season is officially upon us, and in between shopping sprees and social gatherings, sometimes a break inside a darkened theater provides the perfe
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China is rarely painted in a positive light by the mainstream news media these days. It is either criticized for its failings ? human rights violations, theft of Am
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Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased centers on a school committed to the opposite of education, a school of cruel ignorance and unlearning, a sort of reverse Hogwarts commit
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Queen were more than just one of the most exceptional rock & roll bands of all time. They represented theatricality, larger-than-life soundscapes, taking chances an
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Look, the good people of Monrovia, Indiana, wouldn't show up to see a quiet, observational movie about your life. But thanks to your curiosity, decency and cosm
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Ali Abbasi's understated troll drama Border looks at first like it's going to be a ... wait, sorry, let's hold up. Can we briefly reflect on the fact that critics c
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Two years ago, I got into a boisterous discussion with a friend over our vague memories of Martin Amis' novel London Fields, which we both had read in the late 1990
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The bumbling Johnny English was made to take the piss out of James Bond, but with time he's grown ever more like the British super-spy. After writing Pierce Brosnan
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Friday, Oct. 26It's Fogtober at the Nuart this month. The Fog, John Carpenter's 1980 follow-up to his smash hit Halloween, returns to theaters for a one-week
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The biggest surprise about Patrick Wang's sweepingly ambitious, two-part, four-hour ensemble piece A Bread Factory is: The film, a sort of cinematic state-of-the-ar
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A sure-fire way for a director to get me to tune out of a horror film is to over-explain the origin of the movie's evil entities. It's the inexplicable and
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The '80s were a strange time in American culture. Recovering from the smiley-faced, lackadaisical haze of the '70s, everything suddenly became shiny, large and over
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