You can't be blamed for wondering, quite a while into Koji Fukada's Harmonium, just exactly what kind of movie it is. Tense family melodrama? Middle-aged inf
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Every love story is a ghost story, David Foster Wallace wrote, more than once. That evocative observation is probed in David Lowery's A Ghost Story, a film that occa
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Watching movies for a living is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it, and our film critics are up to the task. While they see plenty of stellar movies, they
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Most hero stories dating back to Achilles are fantasies of power, of the world made right through violence. What sets Spider-Man apart, outside his joyous bouncing t
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Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues has called The Ornithologist, which follows a lone bird expert in a remote northern part of the country, an adventure film.
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Asked late in his presidency how his background in Hollywood might have proved useful in his last and longest public performance, that beaming septuagenarian Ronald
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You can't expect a storyteller to wring much suspense out of a real-life plot to assassinate Hitler. In the case of Georg Elser, the subject of Oliver Hirschbiegel's
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In the runup to this year's Cannes Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho's Okja was one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Then, after people ha
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Edgar Wright's Baby Driver is a remorselessly entertaining, impeccably assembled action-musical in which cars and people defy the laws of physics and common sense. T
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Amanda Kernell's scrupulously shaped, coming-of-rage drama opens with Christina (Maj-Doris Rimpi), an elderly woman wearing sparkling pearls and a pitiless count
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The House on Coco Road premieres on Netflix on June 30. Quick, tell me everything you know about Grenada. If you're over the age of 35, you probably remember Ronald
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Hollywood has many more outstanding actors than it does outstanding scripts. That's the only way to explain Naomi Watts' career, which launched stateside with a mast
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