Let's give it this much: Jacques Doillon's tough-sit, sex-life-of-the-artist boob-a-palooza looks great, especially in its opening moments. Rodin's first scene, an
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An easy way to suggest that a tangled story about desperate people brushes up against profundity is to throw the word American? in the title. So it goes with Bart L
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I was brought into this world to be abandoned, notes Mary Shelley deep into the flimsy but amusing film that bears her name. The line resonates, of course, and not
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Just after noon on Friday, in an empty theater in Beverly Hills, Future World had an unremarkable premiere, and that is unfortunate. While the film breaks no new gr
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Movies in the 1970s managed to reflect the anxieties that had many Americans locking their doors for the first time. Nuclear wastefueled monsters and communist agen
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Bruce LaBruce's latest spirited provocation marks the cult director's second literalization of the sexual revolution. Like 2004's The Raspberry Reich, a satire of wh
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There should be a trigger warning for documentaries that incorporate footage from the 2016 presidential election. As I was watching Kate Novack's The Gospel Accordi
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When an actress disappears from mainstream movies, one often asks, What happened to her? For Rosanna Arquette, it may be assumed that her many credits in independen
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Saturday, May 26The luminescent Norma Talmadge was a hugely popular silent movie star whose prominence waned with the advent of talkies. After two straight box offic
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Anthony Byrne's London-set spy thriller In Darkness opens with an extreme close-up on a woman's eye, mascaraed lashes thick and beautiful and its lid shuddering in
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Those who write about the sprawling history of Los Angeles have, it would seem, almost too much to choose from, to sort out and to leave out. One recent online piec
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Unless you've been living under a rock ? or have been lost in some WiFi-less, dark forest ? then you've probably heard by now that Netflix announced Monday that the
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