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For its director and young star, ‘Precious’ is ready to pop

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Precious is hardly the feel-good movie of 2009, but the people...

Cine otro

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Looking for a way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month? The Sie Film Center has a few ways for you, 15 in fact. Back for...

Rediscovered country

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It opens like any other western: Sepia soaked still photographs of settlers in wagons traversing a wild frontier while title cards credit the actors, the...

Direct action

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As the human toll of global climate change comes into clearer view, attempts to find political or market solutions frustrate many environmentalists who call...

Baldwin blues

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“The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.” —James Baldwin By the time James Baldwin...

X marks the spotty

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Like a car mechanic tasked with repairing a UFO or a political pundit faced with explaining Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments, critically appraising the third...

The cinematic sampler

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As far as cinema is concerned, 2021 opened not with a bang but with cautious optimism. For starters, moviegoing has returned with AMC, Cinemark...

Despite cast, ‘Nine’ is a bore

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How can a movie starring six Academy Award-winning actors be such a bore...

A world at odds with itself

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Movies cry for help at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Crank it up

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There are three perfect scenes in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Not “good” scenes. Not “great” scenes. Three perfect scenes. Now, as a whole, The Scorch Trials is not a perfect movie. Nor is it a great one. But it is very good, and most of that has to do with ...

Heck boi

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Hellboy feels like a two-hour “previously on Supernatural” recap, somehow set to even worse music. Anyone who has ever begrudgingly loved a “freak of...

A sea of spider-people

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Watching Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the single closest feeling I’ve had to the first time I cracked open a comic book, beginning a...