Friday, Aug. 31Harold Lloyd, indispensable member of the triumvirate of comics (along with Chaplin and Keaton) dominating silent movie screens, had the biggest succ
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More a mega-thread than a movie, Jack Bryan's tying-it-all-together Donald Trump/Russia doc connects its dots for 110 delirious minutes. Active Measures links Vladi
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When the Third Reich went kaput, and Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler chucked their vile lives into the void rather than face this world's justice, the detestable
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Tweaking children's fare for adult sensibilities is nothing new, and new R-rated puppet flick The Happytime Murders?sadly doesn't add much to the genre in terms of o
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Friday, Aug. 24Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky's sublime biopic of the famous icon and fresco painter, has been newly restored by Janus Films. The Aero Theatre w
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The Icarus Line is dead. The L.A.-based rockers were one of the most provocative and unpredictable bands to come out of L.A.'s garage-rock resurgence in the 2000s,
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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 satiric
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Director Timur Bekmambetov has said that he developed the screen-capture technology responsible for the transtextual horror film Unfriended: Dark Web and the thrill
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My deepest pleasure when watching The Great British Baking Show is trying to spot the nearly imperceptible sneer, or the eye roll tamed at the last second, or any c
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Brawling yet tender, wild yet rigorously controlled, first-time fiction director Jeremiah Zagar's We the Animals is an impressionistic swirl of a film about masculi
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Director Björn Runge's slow-burn marital-implosion drama The Wife stoked an anger deep inside me. In my three years as a master of fine arts student of fiction wri
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Crystal Moselle's Skate Kitchen opens with teen skater Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) doing flip tricks by herself at the park. Two little boys eye her, kids at least s
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