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‘The Departed’ beer dinner

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The timing couldn’t be better. The Alamo Drafthouse’s series, Hot Takes & Remakes, is a bizarre and beautiful collection of 30ish movies — some revered, some...

The world’s bigger than you think

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There comes a moment, nearly three-quarters through the abysmally dull and bizarre Deadhead Miles — starring Alan Arkin as a long-haul truck driver —...

Preserving the past

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If you really want to see something spectacular this summer, head to Paris and take a trip up the Eiffel Tower. And don’t skimp...

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...

When I paint my masterpiece

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Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke, in one of his best performances) is having a crisis of faith. The parish pastor of New York’s 250-year-old First...

‘Sausage Party’ goes further than you think


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The first 70-or-so minutes of Sausage Party is obscenely insightful, a hilariously raunchy contemplation of how spiritual beliefs can be ignorance-inducing and socially blinding....

The eternal charm of the go-getter: Part two

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If great comedy must involve something beyond laughter,” film critic James Agee writes, “Lloyd was not a great comedian. If plain laughter is any...

Team Jarmusch

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It’s amazing how popularity can change perception. When Stephanie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Twilight, cracked The New York Times bestseller list, vampires were brought back into the mainstream in a big way. Beginning in 2008, Meyer’s series was adapted into five movies and...

Keep the lights on

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It always begins with light. Be it an ancient myth or a modern movie, light carves away the darkness and gives form and shape...

Libraries: More than a building full of books

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Located on Fifth Avenue, nestled between 40th and 42nd streets, the New York Public Library is as inspiring as it is imposing. Opened in...

The Bard via gnomes

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Two households, both alike in dignity / In fair Verona, where we lay our scene / From ancient grudge break to new mutiny...

Ford v Ferrari

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There’s a scene halfway through Ford v Ferrari where Carrol Shelby (Matt Damon) takes Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) for a spin on the test-track in...