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Surreally ambitious

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The year’s best films thus far — writer/director Ari Aster’s Hereditary and writer/director Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You — have two major similarities:...

The kid in the bird

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There is one thing you never do on Sesame Street and that is put someone down...

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...

The M stands for middling

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For the first time in over a decade, director M. Night Shyamalan has made a film that won’t end up on many “worst of the year” lists come late-December… but will probably be forgotten by early next week. The Visit is a horror film presented in the cheap, “found ...

Home Viewing: Kelly Sears on ‘Born in Flames’

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It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic War of Liberation: “The most peaceful revolution the world has known.” So opens director Lizzie Borden’s incendiary 1983...

‘Chipmunks’ sequel should’ve been roadkill

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"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel" is a kids...

Untamed adolescence

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Once upon a time, there were five beautiful Turkish sisters whose parents died when they were very young. As a result, they were sent...

reel to reel | Week of May 10, 2012

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ALL ABOUT ACTRESSES A woman director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown, the intellectuals, the comics and the forgotten ...Filming absolutely everything, with or without their permission, the director will be...

Oscar baiting

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Please be silent behind the screen...

Local boy makes God

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The old school newspaper headline, “Local boy makes good,” seems to have fallen out of fashion of late. Should we blame the 24-hour news...

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CHINESE PUZZLE...

Sex will kill you

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Director Jonathan Glazer and writer Walter Campbell’s Under the Skin joins the smallest movie subgenre: brilliant but batshit insane...