Jennifer Peedom's 70-minute big-screen reverie Mountain inspires something that the biggest, purportedly most awesome? movies of our era just can't stir: awe. The
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I want to tell you about the ending of Alexandros Avranas' dirty-cop-and-sex-dungeons thriller Dark Crimes, because it's a startlingly poignant and genuinely surpr
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Yes, there's a scene in Bill Holderman's Boomer-ensemble romantic comedy Book Club where the perpetually promiscuous bachelorette Vivian (Jane Fonda) has to shut up
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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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Don't let the title fool you. Despite 20 or so bookending minutes in which photographer and artist Peter Beard reflects over old photos and some alluring footage ab
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Friday, May 18The slow-burn farces of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are timeless in their exuberant silliness. That's why they seem to play better to kids today
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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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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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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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