Swelling, as it does, toward an exquisite climactic monologue on the subject of endurance itself, Anton Chekhov's what's-it-all-for? comedy The Seagull can afford t
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The first rule?of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB! - Tyler Durden We are going t
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This moment, too, will pass and become history, just as the moment before it already has. Rachel Shuman's 55-minute city study One October etches the New York of th
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Paul Schrader's First Reformed comes before us freighted with expectations. At last, one of the living American greats (writer of Taxi Driver, co-writer of Raging
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Last June, when directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord were replaced by Ron Howard on Solo: A Star Wars Story, many fans feared the worst. But the new movie isn
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The fourth annual RuPaul's DragCon Los Angeles is finis. I am resting and reflecting, having bathed myself in CBD bath salts and coconut-oiled my rough hide whi
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More than half a century ago, in the scorchingly bleak Friz Freleng short Show Biz Bugs, that frustrated show-fowl Daffy Duck finally finds a way to win over an indi
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The first performance of playwright Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 1896 was disastrous, with the cast nearly booed from the stage. But a revival two years later
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Make no mistake: Margot Robbie runs the show onscreen and behind the scenes of the new thriller Terminal, in which she plays a vengeful femme fatale with an agenda
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It's no slight against Coralie Fargeat's vivid, vicious Revenge ? a film that will set midnight movie devotees cheering for generations ? that you've probably seen
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Michael Pearce's Beast is a quiet sort of thriller, a dark and disquieting mystery with its most pressing drama roiling beneath a comparatively placid surface. It ha
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Friday, May 11The Academy Film Archive is screening two rarely shown Cuban films from the 1970s in a double feature co-presented by the Cinemateca de Cuba and hosted
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