For a breath, about halfway through, Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary Studio 54 actually suggests the experience of a visit to its subject, that Kubla Khan of discoth
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Art imitates life imitating art based on life in Wash Westmoreland’s bustling Colette, a Belle Époque dish of scandal, style and eventual liberation. Its subjec
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Crime + Punishment premieres Aug. 24 on Hulu.
Several weeks ago, as BlacKkKlansman debuted in theaters, Boots Riley, the writer-director-radical behind that sat
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Much like the work of his countrymen Asghar Farhadi and Abbas Kiarostami, writer-director Vahid Jalilvand’s No Date, No Signature is a soberly made piece of mel
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Writer-director Iram Haq made me want to punch the screen on which I was watching her heartbreaking, frustrating film, What Will People Say. The story follows a Pa
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Actor Alden Ehrenreich is a star in the making, despite some behind-the-scenes carping about his work in the ill-fated Solo: A Star Wars Story. He’s a natural le
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One truth about American politics: Partisans tend not to face the full mendacity of their side’s worst until there are no more elections left for those worst to
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Friday, March 16
The Fallen Idol may not be quite as well known as director Carol Reed's postwar masterpiece, The Third Man, but it has an even
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Let’s get this out of the way: Nick Park’s caveman-centric animated feature Early Man is actually about soccer. Or football, depending which side of the pond y
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In this review, I’m going to mimic Proud Mary’s structure by giving you no setup and speeding right into what I think are the good parts — like the mind-blowin
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One of the greatest living guitarists, improvisers and bandleaders receives a fittingly humble tribute in Emma Franz’s loose and personable Bill Frisell: A Portrai
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Bobbi Jene, a new Scandinavian documentary, explores a couple of years in the life of an Iowa-born modern dancer who builds a career in Israel before confronting the
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