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‘Legion’ starts well — then plunges

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The diner, as always, is a dive in the desert...

Iron curtain hurtin’

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With apologies to SNL’s Cecily Strong, during its first 40 minutes, Atomic Blonde is “the person you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with...

A gentler Gekko

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A gentler Gekko...

Out with the old, please

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Two years ago, with the world economy about to be credit-defaultswapped right in the kisser, the first Sex and the City feature made $415 million worldwide. Its pre-sold fan base, already nostalgic for Cosmopolitans, heaved a collective, economically envious sigh: ...

Film/STILL 1959

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1959: fourteen years after the war ended and five years before The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show, the cinema started to go democratic. Cameras were smaller, weighed less and cheaper, thereby allowing independent directors to make movies they wanted to make ...

Divorce story

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I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell:I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights...

Reel to reel | Week of August 1, 2013

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20 Feet From Stardom...

No music, no life

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Tower Records was once the place where many gathered to hear great new music, tell their friends about a record they just heard and, most importantly, to purchase it. Tower Records was the place where Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl worked the ...

Part of me, part of you

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The women are on the run. One is a sheltered housewife married to a pig of a man. The other is a waitress hiding...

Your vice is a locked room and only I have the...

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Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) lives for the 1960s. The clothes she wears, the music she listens to, even the movie posters on her bedroom wall...

Point/Counterpoint

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To criticize a movie, you have to make another movie. — Jean-Luc Godard It might be the most notorious climax in American cinema: A black...

Alright to be all wrong

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Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is leading an inauthentic life. In her mind, she is the Queen of Memphis, a country singer born in Scotland...