Friday, July 6Form and content unify in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ? a movie about a video game nerd that itself resembles a video game. Edgar Wright's exuberan
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That post-grunge year of 1993 was one of the biggest of director Steven Spielberg's already big career; his Schindler's List deservedly filled a trophy case with ni
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Much of the past 10 years or so of indie cinema has played like a lot of low-budget auditions for filmmakers yearning to go mainstream. That's not a knock against th
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If there is anything that the American public has been trained to loathe, it's old people. You've probably heard the complaints: They're wrinkly! They're set in the
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A playful antidote to the emotionally devastating finale of Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel Studios' next-up superhero saga, Ant-Man and the Wasp, is a joy to watch
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This is the sixth war that I am running from with this sewing machine, announces Hakiza Nyantaba, a tailor, early in This Is Congo. In its first half, Daniel McCabe
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Friday, June 29Throughout the 1960s and '70s, the Shaw brothers (Runje, Runde, Runme and Run Run) reigned supreme as the owners of the largest independent film s
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Like its prairie setting, Susanna White's Woman Walks Ahead is often a quiet, buggy kind of beautiful, not the kind of thing you might seek out exactly, but the kin
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What do you think I'm doing with this movie?? director Eugene Jarecki (Freakonomics, Why We Fight, The Trials of Henry Kissinger) asks the chief of his road crew so
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The release of Stefano Sollima's Sicario: Day of the Soldado will forever be intertwined with the real-life travesties taking place in one of the film's locations ?
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Expecting life-changing experiences from the BET Awards in 2018 is like expecting Kanye West to make sense. It's just not that kind of party. Unlike other recent aw
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Friday, June 22Is it coincidence that the two most influential American horror writers of the 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, are both proud New Engla
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